T-Mobile to Improve Indoor GSM Coverage

ip.access has been awarded a multi-year contract to supply its nanoGSM products, including basestations, basestation controllers and management systems, for use in T-Mobile USA's network nationwide. The solution is geared to providing enhanced coverage inside buildings, and employs the world's smallest GSM basestation, the nanoBTS. By using the building's existing Ethernet infrastructure, the basestations can very easily be distributed around the building delivering service exactly where it is needed. The use of IP also simplifies and cost-reduces the backhaul connection.

Traditional solutions to indoor coverage problems have required complex antenna and frequency planning and management. By contrast, the nanoGSM solution, with power-over-Ethernet, IP-backhaul, and unique radio network analysis (Network Listen) functionality, can be rapidly configured and integrated within existing infrastructure with the minimum of disruption.

The ip.access nanoBTS is a GSM/GPRS pico-basestation that uses IP networks to deliver cellular voice and data services in the smallest and most cost-effective package available today. Through the innovation of using IP as the backhaul medium, the nanoBTS provides coverage and capacity simply and efficiently. The nanoBTS is part of the ip.access nanoGSM solution, which allows network operators to boost mobile phone coverage in traditionally hard-to-reach areas, enabling new applications such as Wireless Office."

Posted to the site on 24th October 2003