ZTE to provide network infrastructure for Aircel's 4G network

Telecommunications equipment provider ZTE India has won a deal to deploy 4G LTE network for mobile operator Aircel. In the first stage, the deployment will be initiated in Chennai, Rest of Tamil Nadu (RoTN) and certain other circles.

For Aircel, this would help in boosting its enterprise and retail businesses.

''With this alliance, we have strongly established ourselves as the partner of choice for the telecom operators in the country; to develop and maintain their LTE ecosystem and also contributed to our long-term vision of developing sustainable LTE in India. In the initial phase of our rollout, we aim to offer our customers some of the highest data speeds in the country – in excess of 65 MBPS,'' said Xu Dejun, CEO, ZTE India.

ZTE has also completed migrating Aircel's data services to ZTE's 4G LTE evolved packet core for Chennai and RoTN circles.

ZTE has enjoyed a long-term relationship with Aircel since 2008 supporting its 2G-3G rollout in three circles of the north zone. The company is also the key vendor for Aircel's pan-India next generation networks.

''We believe that data is the growth engine of the future and a cutting edge technology such as 4G LTE has the ability to empower consumers like never before. The huge demand for Internet-enabled devices, such as smartphones and tablets among the largely young population, along with increase in consumption of data on internet and rising demand for content are some of the factors fuelling the exponential growth in data,'' said Anupam Vasudev, Chief Marketing Officer at Aircel.