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Altobridge says that it has won a three-year, fully managed services contract with Mongolian mobile communications provider, MobiCom. The contract is for the provision of communications across rural Mongolia using Altobridge¨s GSM architecture.

At 1,564,116 square kilometres, Mongolia is the least densely populated independent country in the world with a population of around 2.9 million people. It is also the world''s second-largest landlocked country after Kazakhstan.

The contract will see Altobridge¨s Access Manager Gateway (AMG) architecture used to provide mobile communications in support of subscriber bases as low as 100, in village, enterprise and government border-post scenarios.

Munkhbold Udval, Director Research and Development Center, MobiCom Corporation, said, ＾We selected the Altobridge technology because it enables us to achieve our aims in delivering viable, much-needed communications to isolated communities and enterprise installations, at the same time making considerable savings. Previously, costs have been too high and the Altobridge technology enables us to reduce these costs considerably without compromising service quality in any way. We are delighted with this agreement.￣

The first systems have been shipped during March 2008 and all are expected to be deployed before the end of the year.

No financial details were provided.

MobiCom is the market leader in the country and according to figures from the Mobile World, ended last year with an estimated 772,000 subscribers. This represents a market share of 64% in a country with a population penetration level of just over 41%.



Source:cellular-news