Ericsson to build and manage Natrindo's 3G network in Indonesia
January 5, 2006, 10:00 (CET)
Under the two-year agreement Ericsson will supply both 2G and 3G/WCDMA radio network equipment and undertake the turnkey implementation of NTS's upgraded network. Implementation will begin immediately.
Kusnadi Sukarja, President of NTS, says Ericsson was chosen primarily because of its technical and commercial merits, supported by its world-leading expertise in the rapidly changing mobile telecommunications industry.
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PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler (NTS), is a subsidiary of Maxis Communications. It began operation in 2001 with the provision of GSM-based mobile telephone service to about 20,000 subscribers in the Surabaya and Malang regions of Indonesia. NTS holds one of two 3G licenses in Indonesia, with bandwidth of 10MHz at the 1900MHz spectrum. The company now has the opportunity to expand its services to the 3G spectrum nationwide.