Huawei Wins WiMax Deal

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networksolutions for operators around the world, today announced that it has beenselected by TransTelecom, a telecom operator in Bulgaria, to deploy acommercial WiMAX network, covering central business districts and hot spotsin the country's major cities, including its capital, Sofia, and Varna,Bulgaria's largest harbor city.

According to the contract, Huawei will supply an end-to-end WiMAX solutionworking on 3.5GHz frequency band, including terminals, as well as a majorupgrade of the TransTelecom central exchange equipment for the operation ofa fully mobile WiMAX network in 2008.

In 2006, TransTelecom deployed a 16d-based WiMAX network to meet thecountry's increasing broadband needs, and the operator has chosen Huawei todeliver an upgraded 16e-based network. Huawei's 16e-based WiMAX solutionintegrates the most advanced technologies such as multiple-inputmultiple-output (MIMO) and orthogonal frequency division multiple access(OFDMA), which features high bandwidth, wide area coverage, large capacity,as well as providing better mobility. Huawei's new base stations, enableTransTelecom to quickly roll out innovative new services to its customers,while reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

"We are delighted to choose Huawei as our WiMAX equipment supplier,"said Mr. John Munnery, Chairman of TransTelecom. "Extensive tests of thisnew technology have surpassed all our expectations. In particular, wewitnessed Huawei demonstrate one of the first handovers of traffic from onebase station to another in Europe. Huawei has exhibited total commitment tothe project throughout our selection process, and has proven itself to beone of the leaders in this fast-developing technology. What's more, we arealso impressed with Huawei's localized engineering and delivery capability."

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