MTC Delivers 3G Services in Kuwait Driven by Nortel
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Enhanced Optical Network Provides Innovative Mobile Wireless Services
LONDON, Nov. 22 / - MTC (Mobile Telecommunications Company), a leading mobile operator in the Middle East and Africa, is delivering high-speed mobile services such as mobile video, multimedia messaging and web browsing in Kuwait with a Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) optical solution.
"MTC is a company of achievement and aspiration," said Dr. Saad Al Barrak, chief executive officer, MTC Group. "Nortel has helped us establish a reliable network in Kuwait that allows us to focus on delivering the innovative services that our customers want today. One of the reasons we selected Nortel is that their solution is future-proof so we can easily add new services when our customers want them."
"MTC's dedication to customer needs reflects our Nortel philosophy," said Tim Watkins, president Northern Region, Middle East and Turkey, Nortel. "And, we have the technology to help them keep pace with staggering demand for the latest most innovative high-speed mobile services. We've worked with MTC for 13 years helping to deliver GSM services across Kuwait and now we've been able to use Nortel optical technology to seamlessly transition their GSM network to deliver 3G services for customers in Kuwait."
The MTC Kuwait transport network is delivered by products from Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networking solutions portfolio and comprises the Nortel Optical Metro 4150 platform at hub sites for aggregation and the Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 in the core for further aggregation and 10G DWDM transport. The network has a redundant architecture to support the aggressive reliability targets required to support the volume and category of traffic handled. MTC's goal was to create a "future proof" network for enabling seamless migration to Ethernet transport - in step with the mobile network and services evolution to 3GPP and LTE - and prepare the network for the expected growth in bandwidth required to support advanced mobility services.
About MTC
As a leading mobile and data services operator in six Middle Eastern and 14 sub-Saharan African countries with 12,000 employees, MTC provides a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to 24.9 million individual and business customers (as of September 30, 2006).
MTC operates in Kuwait and Bahrain as MTC-Vodafone, in Jordan as Fastlink, in Iraq as MTC Atheer, in Lebanon as MTC Touch, in Sudan as Mobitel. It also operates as Celtel in the 14 sub-Saharan African countries - Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Code: Tele), MTC's market capitalization exceeded US$14.9 billion as of October 31, 2006. For more information please visit mtctelecom.com
About Nortel
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