Hutchison 3 UMTS Network, United Kingdom
Key Data:
Operator
Hutchison 3G UK Ltd.
3G license cost
£4,38 billion
Nokia equipment contract
£309 million
Motorola wireless device order
US$700 million
Network soft launch
March 2003
Optical network
2,000 km (connecting 20 major geographic centres of demand)
Core network supplier
Nokia
Radio-access network suppliers
Nokia, NEC Corporation.
Preferred wireless device suppliers
NEC Corporation, Motorola Inc.
Optical network
186k
DWDM optical equipment
Nortel Networks
Base station radio emissions testing
Bureau Veritas
Billing systems provider
ADC
Mapping and guidance data
Ordnance Survey, Tele Atlas
Location-based data technology.
whereonearth, IONIC Software, TCS
