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Articles tagged with: Base Station and Vodafone
Vodafone Ghana Outsources Management for 750 Base Station Towers
Vodafone has signed a 10-year deal with African tower company, Eaton Towers to take over the operations and co-location management of 750 telecom towers for Vodafone Ghana. Over the life of the contract Eaton expects to invest up to $80 million on upgrading and improving the existing towers and on improving Vodafone's coverage in Ghana. Eaton will also develop the existing infrastructure and build new towers. more
Related Tags: eaton-towers, tower, telecom, Ghana
Huawei Launches Vodafone Co-Developed Base Station for Rural Areas
Huawei says that it has launched a 2G base station (BTS) designed for use in rural communities in developing markets. The “EasyGSM BTS” is an All IP-based compact BTS, and was co-designed and developed in collaboration with Vodafone in the two firms’ joint Radio Mobile Innovation Centre based in Madrid, Spain. more
Related Tags: huawei, solar-power, vodacom, bts, gsm, solar, africa, 2g, South Africa
Vodafone Granted Extra Time to Expand its Qatari Network
Qatar's telecoms regulator, ictQATAR has amended the license recently granted to Vodafone to grant the company an additional six months to achieve national coverage. Under the terms of its license Vodafone Qatar was required to achieve 98% population coverage and launch full services by 1 March 2009. The revised terms require 98% coverage by 1 September 2009 and the launch of services, including two-way phone mobile and SMS, by 1 July 2009. more
Related Tags: sms, qatar-telecom, qtel, ict, vodafone-qatar, tower, tower-sharing, ictqatar, operator-license, target, interconnection, Qatar
Active RAN Sharing Could Save Operators $60 Billion
A new study from ABI Research finds that the worldwide combined OPEX and CAPEX savings from active infrastructure sharing could amount to as much as $60 billion over the next five year period. The study finds that operators could enjoy at least 40% cost savings in addition to those available from passive site sharing. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, 3g, eu, rural, o2, lte, abi-research, capex, telenor, 3, backhaul, tele2, infrastructure-sharing, opex, tower, antenna, telia, network-sharing
Hutchison Telecom Confirms Spin-Off Plans for Hong Kong Holdings
Hong Kong based Hutchison Telecom has reported a 16% rise in full-year revenues to HK$24 billion (US$3.1 billion) and an increase of 16.8% in EBITDA to HK$6.14 billion (US$791 million). Net income dropped precipitously to HK$1.88 billion (US$242 million) from the extraordinary HK66.8 billion a year ago - which was largely due to the one-off gain from the sale of its Indian interests to Vodafone. more
Related Tags: 3g, landline, hutchison-telecom, base-stations, gsm, hutchison, java, chief-financial-officer, tower, target, Hong Kong
Vodafone New Zealand Expects to Complete 3G Upgrade Early
Vodafone New Zealand says that it plans to complete its rollout of 3G coverage to 97% of the places New Zealanders live work and play by the end of this May, a year ahead of schedule. more
Related Tags: 3g, nokia, rural, outsourcing, telecom-new-zealand, customer-care, nokia-siemens-networks, 900mhz, siemens, partner, nokia-siemens, play, New Zealand
Big Three Working on LTE Use in Unpaired Radio Spectrum
China Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone have jointly announced that they have taken significant steps in developing LTE technology, following yesterday's LTE FDD/TDD Convergence Summit at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. more
Related Tags: eu, qualcomm, lte, china-mobile, verizon-wireless, ericsson, verizon, base-stations, seven, td-lte, chipset, interoperability, bandwidth, mobile-world-congress
Vodafone Trialling Microwave Ethernet for 3G Backhaul
Vodafone is trialling new microwave technology that it expects to quadruple current backhaul capacity in channelling voice and data traffic away from base stations. Vodafone has carried out a series of trials investigating the potential of Ethernet microwave which is capable of greatly enhancing the performance of existing microwave backhaul technology. more
Related Tags: ethernet, mobile-broadband, microwave, base-stations, radio-access-network, backhaul, play
Vodafone Spain Tests 20Mbps Mobile Download Speeds
Following on from recent trials in Portugal, Vodafone says that it has now tested a HSPA+ mobile broadband connection that delivers maximum download speeds in excess of 20 Mbps in a test environment in Spain. more
Related Tags: 3g, qualcomm, huawei, hspa, ericsson, mobile-broadband, mimo, hspa+, madrid, 64qam, Spain
Vodafone Portugal Tests Mobile Downloads at 16 Mbps
Vodafone Portugal this morning initiated in Lisbon the first data session using the new HSPA+ 64QAM technology which makes it possible to use Mobile Broadband at a theoretical maximum download speed of 21.6 Mbps. more
Related Tags: itu, hspa, ericsson, mimo, base-stations, hspa+, vodafone-portugal, 64qam, testing, Portugal
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