Nokia, Telkom join forces

Nokia, Telkom join forces

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned PT Telkom has established a radio
access network laboratory in its research and information
technology unit (Risti) in Bandung, West Java, in cooperation
with Nokia of Finland.

The laboratory was launched by Telkom's president, Asman A.
Nasution in Bandung yesterday.

Through the laboratory, Nokia and Risti will study together
new services and technologies.

In addition, the two parties will evaluate the service and
quality of Nokia's hardware and software by providing a full test
network which will include network subsystems, base stations,
software and handsets.

Nokia said in a statement that it also supported wireless
Internet application development and would provide information
technologies including the Global System for Mobile
communications (GSM) 1800, GSM 900/1800 dual band and GSM
1800/fixed wireless trial system for joint use with Risti. (icn)