India based Bharti Airtel has announced an agreement with Ericsson and Huawei to deploy a network for its Bangladesh subsidiary. The agreement is modeled on Bharti's managed networks business model in India and Sri Lanka.
Bharti acquired 70 percent stake in Warid Telecom in January 2010.
Bharti's agreement with the two companies includes network design, planning, implementation, project management as well as material and services for the base station sites and microwave transmission. It will also enable advanced business applications, more entertainment options and also provide a platform for evolved mobile services for a wider area in rural Bangladesh.
Financial details for the contracts were not disclosed.
Under this contract, Ericsson will deliver and manage majority of the company's network capacity. Ericsson will expand and upgrade circuit and packet core network, energy efficient radio access network with evolved EDGE technology, Intelligent Network, country-wide microwave mobile backhaul and Business Support Systems (BSS). Ericsson will also supply its MSC-S Blade Cluster which supports multiple core network functions on a common blade type; a single blade can handle 1 million subscribers. Ericsson's latest packet-enabled microwave backhaul solution MINI-LINK TN and High-Density BSC (a future-proof and highly scalable radio access solution) are included in the deal. Ericsson will supply majority of the Radio network with state of the art Multi Standard Radio that consumes significantly lower power.
The other network partner, Huawei will swap the existing radio network in the eastern areas of Bangladesh with state of art of technology which has better quality and performance, is more energy efficient and lower in OPEX.
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