Ericsson signs 1.8 billion dollar deal with domestic operators

Sweden Ericsson, the world's largest maker of wireless communications equipment, recently announced a framework agreement to build and maintain a 1.8 billion-dollar 2G and 3G network with China Mobile and unicom.　　Both agreements will be implemented within 2010 years.　　Among them, Ericsson and China Mobile signed a total of 1 billion U.S. dollars, Ericsson will provide China Mobile, including the multi-standard wireless base station RBS 6000 and mobile soft switching technology, can help China Mobile to further improve its network operations capabilities. Meanwhile, Ericsson has signed a 800 million-dollar deal with China Unicom, which will use Ericsson's HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) technology to build a faster 3G network.　　In addition, Ericsson will provide China Unicom with IP routers, fiber-optic access technology Gpon and 40G Wavelength Division multiplexing (DWDM) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).　　In February this year, China Unicom CEO Yimin has said China Unicom will upgrade the existing 3G network speed, Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities in the Internet is expected to rise from 7.2mbit/s to 21mbit/s. It is reported that each year operators will be with major communications equipment manufacturers signed an annual framework agreement. Last April, Alcatel-Lucent signed a framework agreement with China Mobile and China Telecom for a total of $1.7 billion trillion in the 2009 annual mobile communications equipment and services project. Commercial newspaper reporter Wu Chenguang