| 21st December 2004 - ZTE Corporation, China’s flagship
telecommunications company, is to provide its world-leading
Next Generation Network (NGN) technology to Dancom Pakistan
(Pvt.). The network will cover 14 major cities in Pakistan
and help Dancom provide integrated data and voice services
to its local subscribers.
This is the latest NGN success for ZTE: the Corporation
pioneered the technology as early as 2001 and has already
provided networks in Asia and Europe. ZTE commits about
10% of revenues annually to research and development
and has helped worldwide operators construct NGN networks,
including Postelecom of Romania, Digitel of the Philippines,
Wharf T&T of Hong Kong SAR, China Telecom, China
Mobile, China Unicom and China Netcom.
“Since its creation 19 years ago, ZTE’s solid
foundation has been built upon world-class people backed
by funding to support the development of world-class
products and we are now seeing the benefits of that
policy across the world,” said Chen Jie, ZTE’s
Vice President.
“We are very proud of our pioneering position
on NGN and Pakistan is now set to have a truly world
leading technological system that its people can use
and benefit from.”
As one of the major LDI/LL (Long Distance International)
telecom service providers in Pakistan, holding licences
for 14 Telecom regions in the country, Dancom Pakistan
(Pvt.), has signed the one of the largest LDI-NGN contracts,
with ZTE, on a turnkey basis. The contract covers equipment
including ZXSS10 serial NGN products, ZXR10 serial IP
Routers, a ZXIN10 Broadband IN Platform and the ZXT10
advanced billing system.
The ZTE NGN solution will be the latest modernisation
of the Pakistan network, which is four times the size
it was in 1990, with more than four million fixed lines,
over 2.5 million cellular users and around 1.5 million
Internet users. The modernisation is all part of government
targets to raise teledensity (telephones per population)
from the 2002 figure of 2.5% to 7% by 2010.
About Dancom Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd
The organisation was established in 1995 under the Company’s
Ordinance 1984. Its major shareholder, Dancom Telecommunication
(M) Sdn Bhd Malaysia, provides total Telecom & IT solutions
for the Malaysian market and internationally. The group
specializes in Smart technology-based products application,
cellular deployments, IT related projects, Digital TV,
Broadband wireless and turnkey solutions related to
telecommunication projects. Since 1997, Dancom’s team
has made consistent efforts to establish services all
over Pakistan.
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