Bharti Airtel awards Ericsson and Huawei contracts in Bangladesh

Bharti Airtel has announced an agreement with Ericsson and Huawei to deploy a network for its Bangladesh subsidiary. The agreement is modelled on Bharti’s managed networks business model in India and Sri Lanka.

Bharti acquired 70 per cent stake of Warid Telecom in January.

Bharti’s agreement with the two vendors includes network design, planning, implementation, project management as well as material and services for the base station sites and microwave transmission. It will also enable advanced business applications, more entertainment options and also provide a platform for evolved mobile services for a wider area in rural Bangladesh.

Under this contract, Ericsson will deliver and manage the majority of the company’s network capacity. Ericsson will expand and upgrade the circuit and packet core network, amongst other things. Ericsson will also supply its MSC-S Blade Cluster which supports multiple core network functions on a common blade type; a single blade can handle 1 million subscribers.

Huawei will swap the existing radio network in the eastern areas of Bangladesh with state of art of technology that has better quality and performance, is more energy efficient and can be run at lower in OPEX.