Alcatel-Lucent has announced that its all-IP Evolved Packet Core portfolio has been selected to support the nationwide rollout of China Mobile’s 4G LTE network.

China Mobile has awarded Alcatel-Lucent 24 percent of its overall EPC network. Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will provide a solution consisting of Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router - Mobile Gateway; Alcatel-Lucent 9471 Wireless Mobility Manager; Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Services Aware Manager (SAM).

In September 2013, China Mobile selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy 11% of their new LTE network, consisting of more than 200,000 TD-LTE base stations, by the end of 2013.