Nokia Siemens Networks chosen for broadband services to Albtelecom

TIRANA, March 18 – Albtelecom, Albania’s fixed network internet provider, has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to develop a Next Generation system as it moves to offer broadband services to subscribers.
Thanks to new technologies providing broadband access to the internet, Albtelecom expects to gradually increase the number and quality of services offered to its nearly one million customers and to attract additional Albanian customers seeking internet services.
The new internet products Nokia Siemens Networks will offer include new services based on Internet Protocol (IP), including high-quality voice, data and multimedia.
“Albtelecom has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks thanks to its strong competence in Next Generation Network solutions and also due to our longtime collaboration, especially in the areas of switches and multiplexing,” said Ercan Agir, Deputy General Manager of Albtelecom.
Under the recently signed contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will deliver to Albtelecom an efficient and cost-effective solution for a streamlined, consolidated network, featuring broadband access and high-quality voice services, which is also capable of handling traditional telephone services, simple access points and circuit-switched digital network.
The solution features Nokia Siemens Networks’ SURPASShiE 9200 softswitch, a powerful device controlling Voice over IP calls as well classical switching in a single network, and broadband access technology based on Multiservice Access Node (MSAN) integrating the whole range of fiber and copper access technology.
“Nokia Siemens Networks, with its solutions leading the technological change towards all-IP networks, will demonstrate in practice its entire capability in the development of Next Generation Networks in Albania,” said Roberto Loiola head of Nokia Siemens Networks South East Europe sub region.
Albtelecom is communications the main fixed Albanian operator, holding 90 percent of the Albanian market.
Last year, the Turkish Calik Enerji telekomunikasyon A.S, a consortium of Calik Enerji and Turk Telekom, bought 76 percent of Albtelecom Sh.A. and the right to launch a third cellular operator, which it did earlier this month.