Nortel have agreed to expand Hebei’s GSM 900/1800 dual-band wireless services, to cover five cities and increase the network capacity by one million, to five million users. This part of the contract is worth an estimated $83 million.
In the Anhui and Guizhou provinces, Nortel Networks will enhance existing GSM 900 networks to deliver GSM 900/1800 dual-band wireless services. Nortel Networks will also increase Anhui’s network capacity by 140,000 subscribers to a total of 300,000, and Guizhou’s by 330,000 to a total of 930,000. All three expanded networks are scheduled to be in commercial service by September 2001.
