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MTC Delivers 3G Services in Kuwait Driven by Nortel
MTC Delivers 3G Services in Kuwait Driven by Nortel.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nEnhanced Optical Network Provides Innovative Mobile Wireless Services\n\nLONDON, Nov. 22 /CNW/ - MTC (Mobile Telecommunications Company), a\nleading mobile operator in the Middle East and Africa, is delivering\nhigh-speed mobile services such as mobile video, multimedia messaging and web\nbrowsing in Kuwait with a Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) optical solution.\n\"MTC is a company of achievement and aspiration,\" said Dr. Saad Al\nBarrak, chief executive officer, MTC Group. \"Nortel has helped us establish a\nreliable network in Kuwait that allows us to focus on delivering the\ninnovative services that our customers want today. One of the reasons we\nselected Nortel is that their solution is future-proof so we can easily add\nnew services when our customers want them.\"\n\"MTC's dedication to customer needs reflects our Nortel philosophy,\" said\nTim Watkins, president Northern Region, Middle East and Turkey, Nortel. \"And,\nwe have the technology to help them keep pace with staggering demand for the\nlatest most innovative high-speed mobile services. We've worked with MTC for\n13 years helping to deliver GSM services across Kuwait and now we've been able\nto use Nortel optical technology to seamlessly transition their GSM network to\ndeliver 3G services for customers in Kuwait.\"\nThe MTC Kuwait transport network is delivered by products from Nortel's\nMetro Ethernet Networking solutions portfolio and comprises the Nortel Optical\nMetro 4150 platform at hub sites for aggregation and the Optical Multiservice\nEdge 6500 in the core for further aggregation and 10G DWDM transport. The\nnetwork has a redundant architecture to support the aggressive reliability\ntargets required to support the volume and category of traffic handled. MTC's\ngoal was to create a \"future proof\" network for enabling seamless migration to\nEthernet transport - in step with the mobile network and services evolution to\n3GPP and LTE - and prepare the network for the expected growth in bandwidth\nrequired to support advanced mobility services.\n\nAbout MTC\n\nAs a leading mobile and data services operator in six Middle Eastern and\n14 sub-Saharan African countries with 12,000 employees, MTC provides a\ncomprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to 24.9 million\nindividual and business customers (as of September 30, 2006).\nMTC operates in K...