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Huawei's future-oriented EnerG GSM Solution to cover over 1,500 locations in Pakistan

[ISLAMABAD – 26 September 2006] Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced that it has won a USD 550 million GSM contract to expand the wireless network of Ufone, one of Pakistan's leading telecom service provider.

Ufone is the subsidiary company of Etisalat, and also the country's second largest telecom service provider.

Under the agreement, Huawei will provide its future-oriented EnerG GSM solution to expand Ufone's network to cover over 1,500 cities, towns, villages and all major highways in the country. The network also allows Ufone subscribers to enjoy high-speed wireless data service.

The GSM contract for Ufone also include Huawei's new generation GSM dual density BTS that feature high integrated and receiving sensitivity to improve the network performance and lower the cost of network construction and O&M expenditure. In addition, Huawei will provide Mobile Softswitch solution based on the advanced R4 architecture to satisfy Ufone's network expansion requirements, enables the telecom service provider to evolve into 3G smoothly.

Ufone President Babar Khan said: "The previous network roll-out was also the single largest plan in the history of Pakistan and this time again we are keeping the precedence. Pakistan is a high-growth market for mobile operators."

"The current investments in network expansion will double its existing capacity. With Huawei's EnerG GSM solution, we have been able to provide more high-speed wireless data service, thus further enhance our service offering to Ufone subsctibers," he added.

Mr. Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei, says, "The telecommunication industry in Pakistan is now in a high-speed development period, when the key of competition lies on the rapid network construction in a scaled manner and the provision of rich services to customers." 

" As one of the top-class carriers in the world, Etisalat PTML sets strict requirement on vendors for their capability of end-to-end delivery. With our rapid response to customer's requirements and rich experience in scaled network construction globally, we are fully confident in our capability to satisfy such requirement." He added.

As the world's fastest-growing mainstream operator, Huawei GSM solution has served 120 million global subscribers and established strategic partnership with Telefónica, France Telecom, KPN, Etisalat, STC, MTN, MTS, TM, China Mobile and China Unicom.

About Ufone

Ufone is the subsidiary company of Etisalat, and also the country's second largest telecom service provider. In2005, Etisalat successfully acquired Ufone, the mobile operator under the name of PTCL, and re-planned on the network development of Ufone. Over the last 2 years, its subscribers' base had grown from 650,000 to over 8.5 million nationwide. Ufone always aims to bring more high-quality mobile communication services to all Pakistanis.