Shanghai Unicom has awarded a five-year contract for network maintenance services to Nokia Siemens Networks.
As a result, the operator aims to provide uninterrupted, high-quality services while reducing operating and maintenance costs across one of the largest cities in China. Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will offer field maintenance services, covering the base stations, transmission and fixed line networks of China Unicom’s Shanghai branch.
Delivery of the services starts in May, 2011. This is the second managed services agreement signed between a China Unicom subsidiary and Nokia Siemens Networks. In October, 2010 it was announced that Anhui Unicom had outsourced field maintenance to the company.
“Shanghai is an important and challenging telecom market because of its sheer size, population and position as the financial hub of the country. Therefore, operators like Shanghai Unicom are increasingly taking the managed services route to optimize their network investments while providing high quality services to their subscribers”, said Cheng Gang, head of the China Unicom customer business team at Nokia Siemens Networks. “Nokia Siemens Networks brings its global managed services experience and multi-vendor network expertise to the fore to support this approach.”