Ericsson has been selected by Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) to expand and enhance its GSM/WCDMA/HSPA networks, providing the operator's mobile customers with greater coverage and higher data speeds. The contract is worth US$160million. Ericsson will provide a complete IP-based radio access and common core network. The system is designed to carry large volumes of traffic, providing SingTel's 2.6 million mobile customers with improved services and better coverage island-wide, both indoors and outdoors. With Ericsson's network improvements, SingTel's existing High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network will be upgraded to offer download speeds of up to 14.4Mbit/s (from the current 3.6Mbit/s) and upload speeds of 5.76Mbit/s (currently 384kbit/s).
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