Movicel looks to Huawei for LTE deployment

The Angolan mobile network operator, Movicel has signed a contract with Huawei for the supply of a LTE network. Under the contract, Movicel will deploy a LTE FDD 1.8GHz network in the province Cabinda, the most productive crude oil region in Angola.

Movicel adopted an end-to-end SingleRAN convergent solution, including radio access network, core network, distributed base stations, and terminal devices.

The network is set to be commercialised by June.