ARMENIA – ALCATEL DEPLOYS GSM/GPRS NETWORK FOR VIVACEL

Telecompaper Europe (Was RDSL Europe)
August 4, 2005

Alcatel has signed a multimillion euro contract to deploy a GSM/GPRS
mobile network for Armenian mobile operator VivaCel. Alcatel partnered
in this project with Intracom company, a Greek telecommunications
integrator. Under the terms of this contract, Alcatel will deploy a
complete GSM network based on its Evolium solution. Alcatel’s solution
will cover the whole territory of Armenia and will include Mobile
Switching Centers (NSS) for 400,000 subscribers, more than 200 Base
Stations Sub-Systems (BSS) with natively embedded GPRS capabilities,
as well as a backbone solution based on Alcatel’s next-generation
SDH Optical Multi-Service Node (OMSN) systems and access network.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress