NEC and Siemens Can Rollout 3G Earlier in the UK than Nokia

date: March 18, 2002

In the race to build next-generation 3G networks, Nokia appears to have tripped up in an early United Kingdom 3G project, Monday's UK papers reported.

Nokia last year was asked by mobile -phone operator Hutchison 3G UK to supply radio equipment for an early rollout of a 3G network in the London market and the south of Britain. But Hutchison has since given the task to a partnership between NEC and Siemens, according to an official at NEC and other people familiar with the situation.

NEC and its partner had originally been assigned to build the northern U.K. network for Hutchison, a joint venture of Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong , KPN Mobile and NTT DoCoMo. Nokia will instead supply the 3G network equipment for that later rollout in the north of Britain, according to these people. The switch was finalized in January, some of these people said.

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