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Pannon Commissions Wind-Powered Base Station

Hungary based mobile network, Pannon says that it recently commissioned the country's first wind-powered base station. The village of Kálló in Nógrád County offers suitable wind conditions throughout the year, meaning the wind generator can contribute up to 50% of the base station's power demand.  more

Related Tags: pannon, wind-power, solar-power, , tim, wind, base-stations, renewable-energy, Hungary


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, vodafone, lte, abi-research, capex, telenor, 3, backhaul, tele2, infrastructure-sharing, opex, tower, antenna, telia, network-sharing


Nortel Software Upgrade Reduces GSM Base Station Power Consumption

Nortel is launching a "Smart Power Management" software platform that the company says helps reduce radio network power consumption in GSM networks and delivers significant energy and cost-savings for mobile operators. Power reductions that can be achieved through this solution were demonstrated in a trial conducted in February 2009 with China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) - the parent company of Hong Kong listed China Mobile.  more

Related Tags: sim, tim, china-mobile, cdma, ovi, iden, nortel, bts, gsm, smart, beijing, cmcc


Telekom Austria's First Wind Turbine-Powered Mobile Phone Base Station

mobilkom austria, the domestic mobile subsidiary of the Telekom Austria Group has started operations of the first wind turbine-powered mobile phone base station in Eibesthal in Lower Austria. The project has been nominated for the environmental award of the City of Vienna 2009.  more

Related Tags: wind-power, eu, wind, telekom-austria, telekom-austria-group, base-stations, seven, telekom, vienna, axis, mobilkom, Austria


O2 Germany to Upgrade Network to Support 28Mbps Data Download Speeds

Telefónica o2 Germany has announced plans to upgrade its network to HSPA+, and start offering peak download speeds of up to 28Mbps in the second half of this year. The network upgrade will initially occur in Munich - where o2 has its headquarters. more

Related Tags: huawei, mts, hspa, telefonica, o2-germany, base-stations, gsm, telefonica-o2, munich, Germany


Doubling the GSM Voice Capacity with Standard Handsets

For the first time in the world, four calls have been carried in one GSM radio timeslot. This significant step in GSM evolution path was taken today by Nokia Siemens Networks who successfully completed a drive test for the Orthogonal Sub Channel (OSC), that doubles the voice capacity of GSM radio network.  more

Related Tags: nokia, edge, capex, nokia-siemens-networks, gsm, siemens, nokia-siemens


Telenor Plans 40% Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2016

Telenor has announced that it plans to reduce the carbon intensity of its global operations with 40 per cent by 2016, compared to the 2007 level. Telenor is expecting continued strong growth in the business and in network traffic, but the total emissions in 2016 will be reduced to equal the already low 2007-level.  more

Related Tags: solar-power, telenor, climate-change, renewable-energy, solar, target


Ericsson Trials Wind Powered Base Stations

Working with Vertical Wind AB and Uppsala University in Sweden, Ericsson has unveiled its latest energy-optimized radio base station site concept, a research project for a pioneering wind-powered Tower Tube.  more

Related Tags: wind-power, wind, ericsson, base-stations, tower-tube, towers, tower


Vodafone Portugal Using Wind Power on its Base Stations

Vodafone has begun generating electricity for its mobile communications network with the installation of a wind micro-generating system in the Serra do Socorro near Mafra. more

Related Tags: rural, wind, Portugal


Ericsson Tops Mobile Network Infrastructure Vendor Matrix Ranking

Ericsson has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent claimed the second and third spots in the company's new evaluation of worldwide mobile network infrastructure vendors.  more

Related Tags: rsa, abi-research, alcatel-lucent, hspa, ericsson, nokia-siemens-networks, i-hspa, ims, siemens, 4g, managed-services


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