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Russian-owned cellco MTS Ukraine awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent for the provision of an IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution.

According to an Alca-Lu press release from the French-U.S. vendor, the mobile operator plans to integrate end-to-end management across multiple technology domains, thereby simplifying operations and reducing operating expenditure while offering its end-users advanced IP-based services. As well as serving as a basis for MTS’s existing 2.5G GSM-based and 3G CDMA-450 EV-DO platforms, the move towards all-IP could also support the introduction of W-CDMA/HSPA and 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technologies in the future.