Ukrainian Operator Orders Network Planning Kit

Mentum says that MTS Ukraine, a long time customer of its software products, has bought additional licenses of its Planet RF planning and optimization software and associated prediction and optimization modules to support its network expansion. Included in the software purchase are WCDMA and HSPA licenses as well as advanced automated frequency planning (AFP) and automatic cell planning modules (ACP).

"We are providing our engineers with the advanced Mentum Planet 3G toolsets in anticipation of our network evolution to UMTS," said Andrey Malashok, head of radio planning department, MTS Ukraine. "Mentum Planet and the Capesso ACP will allow us to build optimized network designs in anticipation of our 3G spectrum acquisition."

Mentum Planet has HSPA capabilities supporting all deployment configurations including Rel. 99, HSDPA and HSUPA, and HSPA or Rel. 99 exclusively.

The Capesso ACP, developed by MentumÃ's strategic partner Symena, allows for the relatively quick development of 3G network plans that are demonstrably better than plans developed by RF engineers using traditional methods. These optimized plans deliver significantly improved coverage, capacity and quality over manually-developed plans and can jointly consider traffic served on two networks.

Posted to the site on 11th February 2008