Uninor has awarded a sum of Rs 1,200 crore contract to Chinese firm Huawei for modernising and managing its network in India. The contract is for a tenure of three years. Under the contract, Huawei India will modernise its entire telecom network across all six telecom circles which as of now has 24,000 base stations. The company operates in UP (West), UP (East), Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and has also bagged licenses in Assam. The deal also involves Huawei becoming the managed services partner of Uninor.
Under the project, Uninor will install small mobile sites closer to customers to reduce gap in its network coverage. The project also covers modernization of all of its mobile tower sites by 2016.
- Uninor is an Indian mobile network operator based in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
- The company is a subsidiary of Telenor Group, a telecommunications company headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
- Vivek Sood is the current CEO of Uninor.
- The Slogan of Uninor is Pay Less Talk More.
- The Telenor Group is one of the world’s largest mobile telecommunications companies.
- Sigve Brekke is the current President and CEO of Tenenor.
- Huawei Technologies is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong
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