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31st March 2004 - Nokia has been selected as the sole
supplier of a digital TETRA professional mobile radio
system for Nanjing Metro Corporation in Jiangsu province,
China. The Nokia system will provide TETRA voice and
data service to staff operating Nanjing Metro's urban
rail system, which serves the city of Nanjing's six
million inhabitants.
Under the agreement, Nokia will provide DXTip switching
equipment, TETRA base stations, a Nokia dispatcher workstation
and a large number of TETRA terminals. Nokia will also
provide implementation and training services. The equipment
has been delivered, and implementation is underway for
system launch in the second half of this year.
Implementation is being carried out in cooperation
with the system integrator Shanghai Railway Communication
Equipment Factory, which will also provide data applications
based on the Nokia DXTip switching platform.
"We are convinced that Nokia's TETRA system will satisfy
Nanjing Metro's demanding requirements for good voice
service and rich data applications," says Mr. Miu Weizhong,
Head of Shanghai Railway Communication Equipment Factory.
"We are pleased to be working with Shanghai Railway
Communication Equipment Factory to provide our state-of-the-art
system to Nanjing Metro," says Topi Kinnunen, Director
of Professional Mobile Radio Asia Pacific and Greater
China, Nokia. "This implementation highlights once again
how ideally suited the Nokia TETRA solution is for large-scale
public transport organizations."
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