Nokia Networks on Friday announced its $970 million telecom network deal with China Mobile.

Nokia Networks will provide its 4G TD-LTE technology including Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and GSM wireless networking equipment, core application platforms, OSS, software, and services to China Mobile.

China Mobile will be utilizing these equipments for rolling outs its 4G LTE services in 2014 and 2015. Nokia Networks said deliveries under the agreement commenced in Q1 of this year.

Li Huidi, vice president of China Mobile, and Hans-Juergen Bill, executive vice president at Nokia and also chairman of the Board of Directors of Nokia Networks GmbH & Co KG in Germany, signed the deal today.

The agreement was signed at the Sino-German Economic Forum in Berlin.

China Mobile and 4G

China Mobile, which competes with China Telecom and China Unicom, is in the process of deploying 500,000 4G base stations. The world’s telecom operator aims to build the largest TD-LTE network in the world by the end of 2014.

With 46 TD-LTE radio references, Nokia Networks is supplying approximately half of all commercial TD-LTE networks globally and is the only vendor to have deployed TD-LTE on all six continents, the company said in a statement.

Nokia Networks has established a TD-LTE value chain in China, including TD product headquarters, product design, R&D, testing, manufacturing, procurement, sales and marketing.

Baburajan K
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