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Nokia delivers GSM network expansion to Beijing Mobile Communications



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Jan 15, 2003 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- Finnish telecomms solutions
provider Nokia said today (15 January) that it had signed a contract with the
Chinese telecomms operator Beijing Mobile Communications Company Limited (BMCC)
for the expansion of the company's GSM network in China.

Under the contract Nokia would supply the GSM expansion, GPRS core network and
radio-access infrastructure and provide technical-support services for the
management of the BMCC network.

Nokia said that the deliveries would enhance the capacity and features of the
short message service centres and increase the network's capacity to handle text
messaging and GPRS services and GSM voice traffic.

The value of the order was said to be over USD70m.



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