ZTE Wins LTE Trial Contract in Indonesia

TE says that it has signed an LTE trial agreement with Indonesia's Telkomsel. ZTE began work to roll out Telkomsel's LTE trial network last month.

Last November, SingTel, which owns 35% of Telkomsel announced trials of LTE services in four countries, including Indonesia. The trial participants were Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks and ZTE.

As the lead supplier for Telkomsel's UMTS networks, ZTE's Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology will upgrade the 2G/3G service to LTE, and the company says will greatly reduce the network construction cost for Telkomsel.

"As the largest mobile operator in Indonesia, Telkomsel is committed to providing state-of-the-art connectivity services for our subscribers. ZTE excels in LTE technology with its delivery capability and innovations, high quality solutions and services. We are very pleased to have ZTE as our partner in building LTE networks for our subscribers," said Ricardo Indra, GM Corporate Communication of Telkomsel.

Article published on 21st September 2010

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