Vodafone 3G Partners

Vodafone Essar, one of India's leading cellular service providers, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson India as partners for its 3G network across the country.
        These allies will enable swift 3G deployment, create synergy between GSM and 3G networks, and maintain leading-edge high speed packet access networks in nine of Vodafone's 3G license circles, a press release issued here stated. These circles - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai & Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra & Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh (East) and West Bengal - cover over 60 percent of the company's current customer-base.Vodafone will utilise the latest HSPA technology to deliver new services like video telephony, mobile broadband, mobile TV and others.

    Vodafone selected Ericsson to provide exclusive 3G HSPA services in Indias largest metropolitan cities of Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata.Vodafone has also acquired the services of Nokia Siemens to implement and manage its 3G HSPA network in the six circles of Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, UP (East), Rest of Bengal and Haryana.Both network partners will collaborate with Vodafone to improve the end-user experience.