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  • Celcom excludes Nokia from 4G upgrade project

    Celcom excludes Nokia from 4G upgrade project

    Malaysia’s Celcom Axiata has excluded Nokia from its new five-year 4G network upgrade project, cutting its selection of vendor partners down to just Huawei and Ericsson.

    The company has signed an infrastructure agreement with Huawei and Ericsson for a project expected to have capex costs of up to 2.2 billion ringgit ($566.7 million).

    Celcom’s existing network infrastructure was built based on a three-partner collaboration of Nokia, Ericsson Malaysia and Huawei. But Celcom chief of operations Ramanathan Sathiamutty said the operator is cutting its partners down to two to streamline partner management

    Under the new contract, Ericsson and Huawei will be responsible for the full turnkey delivery of a radio access network to support the 4G rollout and prepare for the introduction of 5G.

    Celcom has budgeted between 1.8 billion and 2.2 billion ringgit as capex for the rollout. The amount spent will be contingent on whether Malaysia introduces spectrum refarming for the 900-MHz and 1800-MHz bands – if refarming is announced, the budget will be 2.2 billion ringgit.

    The operator said the upgrade will allow the company to offer broader coverage with fewer sites, allowing it to realize group-level cost savings.

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  • Indonesia’s H3I taps Nokia for core network upgrade

    Indonesia’s H3I taps Nokia for core network upgrade

    Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) has contracted Nokia to expand its core network to meet growing mobile data demands in the market.

    Under the agreement, Nokia will supply H3I with packet core technology in cities including Surabaya, Semarang, Solo and Yogyakarta – the most densely populated cities in the country.

    Nokia will also provide network planning, optimization, implementation and care services, as well as its Flexi convergent mediation device and its NetAct operations support system. The contract is also aimed at laying the groundwork for future network upgrades to meet emerging demands.

    H3I has been seeing data traffic double around every nine months as a result of rapid smartphone and 3G data adoption in Indonesia’s growing economy.

    Mobile is playing a leading role in providing internet connectivity to Indonesians. As of the start of 2016 there were over 320 million mobile subscribers across Indonesia, while fixed broadband penetration remained under 2%.

    “We are pleased to have Nokia’s services and technology expertise at our side as we evolve our core network to meet the speed and quality needs of a growing number of connected consumers and business users in Indonesia,” H3I president director Randeep Singh Sekhon said.

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  • Nokia starts cutting jobs after ALU merger

    Nokia starts cutting jobs after ALU merger

    Nokia has commenced a program to cut thousands of jobs worldwide as part of the cost-cutting and transformation program associated with the takeover of Alcatel-Lucent.

    The company plans to cut 1,300 jobs in Finland, 1,400 in Germany and 400 in France as part of the headcount reduction program, which will take place between now and the end of 2018.

    But Nokia also agreed to create 500 new R&D jobs in France as a condition of receiving approval from the French government to acquire Alcatel-Lucent.

    Nokia has not yet revealed how many jobs will be eliminated worldwide. The company has around 104,000 employees.

    The job cuts form part of a program aimed at achieving €900 million ($1.02 billion) in annual operating cost synergies by 2018. Nokia said the program is also aimed at adapting to challenging market conditions and shifting resources to important new and upcoming technologies including 5G, the cloud and the IoT.

    “These actions are designed to ensure that Nokia remains a strong industry leader,” commented Nokia president and CEO Rajeev Suri.

    “When we announced the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent we made a commitment to deliver €900 million in synergies – and that commitment has not changed. We also know that our actions will have real human consequences and, given this, we will proceed in a way that that is consistent with our company values and provide transition and other support to the impacted employees.”