T-Mobile USA Selects Alcatel to Enhance Core Network

T-Mobile USA awarded a 3-year supply contract to Alcatel. As part of this new deal, Alcatel will continue to deploy its Alcatel 5020 Spatial Atrium Distributed MSC solution for the upgrade and optimisation of the operator's mobile core network. Today, T-Mobile USA has 1 million ports installed, with more than 500,000 ports carrying live traffic across the national next-generation mobile core network, the first in US and one of the first in world. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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