The contract, valued at $33 million for the initial phase, includes network infrastructure, services and handsets. The network will when completed provide nationwide coverage.
In line with providing top quality mobile services and a broad variety of value added products to our customers, we are very pleased to have selected Ericsson as our preferred vendor of GSM systems in Central America, says Fuad El-Hibri, Chairman of the Board of Digicel. Ericsson’s experience and commitment to the turnkey project will enable us to rapidly roll-out GSM service in El Salvador, and to easily expand into other Central American countries.
Digicel’s customers will have immediate access to the global telecommunications community, including the United States, through global roaming. There are currently more than 450 million GSM subscribers worldwide.
We are very pleased to introduce our world-leading GSM solution in El Salvador, and are looking forward to working with a new customer that has already proven its ability in other markets, says Urban Gillstrom, President of Ericsson in Central America.
This contract further strengthens Ericsson’s position as the leading supplier of mobile systems in El Salvador and Central America, and is a further strengthening of the trend toward GSM in the Americas, concludes Gillstrom.
