STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced a pair of GSM/EDGE contracts from Digicel Group, a mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean. Under the contracts, Ericsson said it will deliver and install GSM/EDGE networks in Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti.
Ericsson said the contracts include radio equipment for Digicel Haiti as well as radio and core equipment for Digicel Trinidad & Tobago. Ericsson will provide GPRS/EDGE networks, transmission equipment, prepaid systems, network management systems, mobile portal solutions, implementation services and training.
Trinidad and Tobago is a West Indian country with more than 1 million residents living on about 200 square miles of land split between two islands.
In other GSM supplier news, Nokia Corp. announced a $55 million agreement with Advanced Info Service plc to expand the mobile-phone operator’s GSM network in the northern, central and southern regions of Thailand.
Nokia said the expansion will improve network coverage and capacity, enabling AIS to boost service quality and offer innovative multimedia and convergence services.
Under the agreement, Nokia said it is supplying radio network expansion and Nokia Unified Core Network solutions, including Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, Third Generation Partnership Program Release 4 MSC Server and Nokia Presence solution. The company said the network expansion is supported by Nokia’s systems integration, implementation, optimization, project management and consulting services.
