China Mobile Hebei, a provincial company of China Mobile, 
has selected Ericsson as a sole managed services partner for all its 22,000 2G/3G (GSM/TD-SCDMA) base station sites through a three-year field maintenance agreement. The Hebei province has a population of 70 million and China Mobile is the largest operator with 35 million subscribers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Ericsson has already begun providing the service for what is the largest managed services contract the company has received in China so far. The company said the deal allows China Mobile Hebei to improve its network quality and operational efficiency, and further increase its focus on its core business, the subscribers, while Ericsson takes full responsibility for the field maintenance work of all the base station sites.
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