Swisscom, Switzerland's mobile and fixed operator, has entered into a five- year contract with Ericsson for mobile-network modernization and upgrade to LTE.

As per the agreement, Ericsson will modernize 6,000 mobile sites with its RBS 6000 multi-standard radio base stations and optimize all of Swisscom's networks.

The operator's mobile-data users will benefit from faster speeds as a result.