Articles tagged with: Hspa and Opex

"Gigabyte-ready" network pricing could boost mobile broadband growth

­The widespread deployment of hspa has increased the speed and data capacity of 3G networks dramatically, removing technology barriers of launching true mass market mobile broadband. But simply upgrading to hspa technology is not sufficient if operators are also to profit from new & faster mobile data services. The mobile network sourcing consultants of Rewheel believe that MNOs and network vendors must develop new equipment pricing schemes minimizing the operators' risk of losing money on exhorbitant capacity upgrade costs while still maintaining healthy margins for the vendors.  more

Related Tags: 3g, license-fees, broadband

UMTS900 Operator Case Study Shows Significant Cost and Coverage Benefits

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has published an operator case study on Finland's Elisa network which it says shows significant cost and coverage benefits of deploying 3G services in the 900Mhz spectrum band.  more

Related Tags: asia-pacific, rural, elisa, capex, mts, mobile-broadband, 900mhz, umts900, indoor-coverage, Finland