Airtel awards billion dollar deal to Ericsson

Category: Airtel | 1 Comment | Posted on August 24, 2006

Bharti Airtel has awarded to Ericsson a one billion dollar (Rs 4500 crore) contract extending over three years, for the expansion and upgrade of Bharti Airtel’s mobile network in 15 circles.

Last year Bharti Airtel had signed a 250 million dollar (Rs 1,075 crore) contract with Ericsson, to set up and maintain Airtel’s cellular network in 3,000 towns and villages across the country. In 2004, they had signed a 400 million dollar agreement for supply of GSM network.

Ericsson will also upgrade the network with mobile softswitch (Media Gateway and MSC Servers), the solution that paves the way to an all-IP network.

Ericsson already manages more than 70% of Bharti Airtel’s network in India.

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