Nokia selected to build and manage Mexico's shared network

(Telecompaper) Nokia has been awarded a major contract to help design, build and operate Mexico's wholesale 4G shared network (Red Compartida) by Altan Redes, the consortium entrusted with providing wireless broadband nationwide to 92 percent of the country's population. Describing the award as its largest-ever contract win by scale in Latin America, Nokia will provide 100 percent of the fully virtualised core network and 40 percent of RAN, IP backhaul, OSS and NOC. This will be deployed in five