Polish telco Polkomtel’s network upgrade by NSN

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia Siemens Networks and Polish cellco Polkomtel have joined hands to extend and modernize  latter’s 3G/HSPA network to make it smartphone friendly and prepare it for the next generation of mobile broadband.

The improvement will increase Polkomtel’s mobile broadband coverage and capacity to provide its subscribers with improved mobile internet and multimedia services. This will also help the telco to deal with the data surge sparked by the growing number of high-speed data customers as well as that of smart devices.

According to Miguel Marin, chief technology officer at Polkomtel, to maintain company’s leadership in providing valuable new services to Polish subscribers, it has decided to upgrade the network for higher speeds and more capacity and the upgrade will prepare the network to handle new technologies like HSPA+ besides helping it to benefit from the lower energy consumption, and signaling efficiencies of Nokia Siemens Networks’ smartphone friendly technology.