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Articles tagged with: Opex
Nokia Siemens Networks Wins 60% of Russian 3G Tender
Russia's MegaFon has announced the outcome of a 3G network tender, with Nokia Siemens Networks supplying at least 60% of 3G Node -B Base Stations. MegaFon says that it shall decide upon the territory of the equipment supply within Russia at the same time there shall be no exclusivity rights provided to vendors. more
Related Tags: megafon, alcatel-lucent, ericsson, -nokia-siemens, huawei, zte, base, nokia-siemens, Russia
"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: hspa, 3g, license-fees, broadband
Opex Worries Drive More Telcos to Vendors for Managed Services
..rships to offload more and more operational functions, with an eye toward cutting opex costs and freeing up internal resources for more intense business development activities." Key findings include the following: The use of managed ser more
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Average Mobile Broadband usage Doubles in Sweden
The rapid growth of the average usage per mobile broadband subscriber in Sweden reconfirms the potential of 3G/HSPA technology to become a real alternative of fixed broadband. Experts say that making margin on mobile broadband is not impossible even at such traffic levels but the business environment is clearly becoming more challenging compared to the voice centric era. more
Related Tags: 3g, mobile-broadband, hi3g, Sweden
Huawei Launches World's First Multi-mode Base Station Controller
Huawei has launched the world's first convergent Base Station Controller (BSC) which integrates both the GSM BSC and the UMTS RNC (Radio Network Controller) into one multi-mode controller. Specifically designed to support multiple wireless systems via a single uniform access network, the SingleRAN solution integrates radio bearers for voice, narrowband data, mobile broadband and more into one network element instead of many. more
Related Tags: huawei, base-station-controller, radio-network-controller, umts
Battery cooling solution to reduce network cost for operators
Nokia Siemens Networks has expanded its portfolio of energy efficient Smart Site solutions with the introduction of SiteStar, a cooling cabinet that can increase battery life by three times, and reduce the electricity consumed for cooling batteries at a base station site by up to 95%. SiteStar will be commercially available in Q3 of 2009. more
Related Tags: nokia-siemens-networks, smart, nokia-siemens, life
Operators increasing spending on subscriber data management services
..ch. The report noted that subscriber data management (SDM) software is viewed as a key opex reduction play, helping operators improve their bottom lines by reducing revenue leakage, speeding time to market for new services, and streamlining fu more
Related Tags: subscriber-data-management, infonetics-research
Cellular Technology Extends the Boundaries of E-healthcare
Wireless technologies has been of immense value to medical practitioners, enabling them to increase productivity and improve the availability of quality healthcare globally. However, while mobile technology undoubtedly adds value to healthcare, the question is whether advances in technology pose a security threat, as information transmitted across a network should be accessible only to authorized users worldwide. more
Related Tags: security
Wireless Backhaul to Go Next-Generation by 2012
Based on IDC's research of the Asia/Pacific (including Japan) carrier network equipment market, IDC predicts that there will be over 3 million basestations and over 1.8 million cell sites in by 2012, representing a growth of 24.3% and 10.7% respectively from 2008. Approximately half of these sites will be connected to fiber through Carrier Ethernet. Urban 3G/High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) basestations will be linked to fiber by 2011 in most markets in the region. more
Related Tags: base-station, lte, wimax, cdma2000, hotspot, umts, hsdpa, 4g, bandwidth
Vodafone launches femtocells in the UK
..le. However, femtocells are clearly not there yet. In early deployments the priority is to prove that they work from technical and customer perspectives. Therefore, to gain sufficient penetration, and make the business case work, Vodafone will more
Related Tags: vodafone-uk, femtocell, femtocells, UK