Orange Ireland brings faster mobile voice and data services to the country. Orange completes its new 3G+ network in Northern Ireland, giving customers, living, working or travelling in the country access to even more reliable voice and data services. Northern Ireland and Scotland have both benefitted from the recent upgrade programme. Some 760 sites across the areas have been upgraded resulting in a 20 per cent improvement in network performance for both voice and data.
“We are delighted to announce the new network has gone live in Northern Ireland”, said Pete Marsden, vice president IT & Networks. “At Orange we are proud of our commitment to give all our customers access to robust and reliable networks. We are investing heavily in updating and improving our infrastructure to meet our goal of being the best UK network for coverage and reliability.”
Orange now offers over 94% population 3G coverage and over 70% 3G+ across the UK.
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KPN’s German mobile unit E-Plus plans upgradation of its 2G network in Germany in 2009, says E-Plus Chief Technology Officer Rafal Markiewicz. “E-Plus plans to invest, like in 2008, a high three-digit million euro sum in 2009 in expanding its network,” Markiewicz said. He added that the measures include the upgrade of its second generation network to the EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) standard,” Markiewicz said.
E-Plus, Germany’s third largest mobile operator by subscribers is unable to provide an EDGE network which allows faster mobile data transfer. “We decline (to do) battle with the competition on technical specifications but stay focussed on our customers needs,” Markiewicz said.
After the network upgradation, the operator aims to cover 30% of the German population with EDGE by the end of Q1′09 and by the end of 2009 E-Plus targets 90% of the population.Markiewicz says that E-Plus saves money in being behind the competition in upgrading and expanding its network.”Costs for 3G network equipment are now just around 20% compared with 2003 and more energy efficient,” he said.
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The Canadian incumbent Rogers Wireless has upgraded its network to 3G, allowing its subscribers to surf internet on their mobile phones at faster speeds. The mobile operator has doubled the speed of its High Speed Packet Access cellular broadband network, offering subscribers up to 7.2 Mbps downlink speed. Rogers said the network can be considered “3.5G,” and it ranks among one of the fastest mobile broadband service around the globe. “With Rogers’ 7.2 HSPA network, by far the fastest mobile network in Canada, Canadian can today experience even faster broadband download speeds on their cell phones, smartphones and laptops,” said John Boynton, Rogers’ senior VP, in a statement. “With today’s national availability of Canada’s fastest mobile network, we’ll continue to offer the best wireless services and newest innovations to Canadians from Halifax to Victoria.”
The operator provides HTC Touch Diamond, LG Vu, and a pair of cellular modems which are compatible to the technology.
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Qatar Telecom QSC, the leading telecommunications company, took another important stride towards delivering the highest standard of communications infrastructure today, with the completion of an agreement to implement a full network modernization project that will double mobile broadband speeds in Qatar.
As a strategic partner, Nokia Siemens Networks is modernizing and optimizing Qtel’s pioneering nationwide 2G and 3G networks, providing an advanced network infrastructure based on the company’s “future-proof” solutions.
His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani, Chairman of Qtel, said: “Today’s announcement of this significant upgrade to Qatar’s mobile network infrastructure brings us an important step closer to the realization of our vision to deliver the world’s most advanced communication solutions to everyone in Qatar. We will work with Nokia Siemens Networks to ensure that the highest quality of experience and the latest services are made available for our customers.”
As part of the agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks is deploying an energy-efficient radio access solution, based on a Flexi Base Station, that will offer very significant power consumption savings to Qtel. These savings will help reduce the environmental impact of the ongoing growth of Qatar’s communication infrastructure, by increasing energy savings, in-line with Qtel’s strategy for enhanced corporate social responsibility.
Nokia Siemens Networks is also providing technical and business consultancy, site preparation, field activities and network operations support. It is implementing a state-of-the-art infrastructure roll-out process, built upon a circuit-switch core network capacity expansion and a packet core network swap based on the Flexi ISN solution for optimized data traffic.
These services will ensure a seamless upgrade for everyone in Qatar, providing uninterrupted and enhanced mobile broadband service, as well as enabling Qtel to continue to deliver its range of product enhancements and upgrades to customers across Qatar.
Commenting on this deal, which extends the strong relationship with Qtel that started in 1994, Christoph Caselitz, Chief Market Operations Officer, Nokia Siemens Networks said: “This is an important deal for us as it strengthens our collaboration and commitments with an industry leader such as Qtel.”
“As a significant regional operator, with tremendous expansion potential, Qtel is one of our key customers. We are very pleased that it has recognized Nokia Siemens Networks as a reliable supplier, and we’re ready to offer our best-in-class technologies in line with Qtel’s long-term plans to provide superior quality to their customers,” added Qais Esrawee, Head of the “Qtel group” Customer Business Team for Nokia Siemens Networks.
Qtel’s network continues to be supported by the multivendor, multi-technology NetAct network and service management solution. Nokia Siemens Networks will also provide Qtel with NetAct Global Reporter for collecting, processing and visualizing network performance information, and NetAct Optimizer for enhancing service quality for Qtel customers and increasing efficiency of the optimization processes.
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Telefonica Spain signs 15-year contract, worth $206 million, with Ecuadorian government to provide mobile phone service across the nation. Telefonica plans an investment of $400 million for the upgradation of networks and services such as 3G. In September 2007, it was America Movil SAB which signed the same contract for $480 million.
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Zain Malawi, announces additional nine coverage sites across the nation in a bid for improved quality and delivery of service for it’s one million subscribers nationwide.
Zain which is currently spending US$30 million, will have spent nearlty US$100 million, by the end of 2009, towards the expansion and upgradation of the network to ensure it’s coverage to every part of Malawi.
According to Zain Malawi’s Marketing Director, Enwell Kadango, there are 5 new capacity sites and 5 additional base stations in central and southern region of the nation, part of the upgradation process.
“The new coverage sites underscore the company’s commitment to give customers modern and world class network services in line with its strategy of becoming one of the top 10 telecommunications brands in the world,” he said.
The celco has appointed versatile network experts from Sweden, Germany and Japan working towards speedy integration of new softwares and hardwares for better quality and uninterrupted services for it’s subscribers.
The upgradation process is likely to end in September, and aims to accomodate nearly 3 million subscribers.
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Orange brings 3G+ service to its subscribers in Northern Ireland and Scotland
