STC picks Ericsson as one of its main vendors for LTE

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has selected Ericsson as one of the main vendors in the telco’s deployment of its LTE network in Saudi Arabia. Utilising Ericsson’s end-to-end LTE solution, STC will be able to provide customers with an enhanced experience, enabling true high-speed Internet, rich multimedia applications such as high definition (HD) video streaming and chatting, cloud services and conferencing and high definition applications.

With 4G/LTE technology, STC customers will enjoy an unparalleled mobile-broadband experience providing ultra-high data speeds across the kingdom.

In addition to managing the existing STC 2G and 3G networks, Ericsson will also manage the new STC LTE network whereby Ericsson will optimise, manage, operate and continuously improve STC’s 2G, 3G and now 4G networks. Ericsson will also introduce a new subscriber data model that will facilitate management and access to data, launch of new services, connecting to the cloud and independent scalability of storage and processing capacity. Ericsson will also introduce an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) with STC that will act as a common core network solution supporting 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE technologies providing additional capacity and throughput.