Making money with mobile broadband

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Mobile broadband traffic is growing exponentially as people connect to their contacts, applications and services on their mobile phones. By 2020, mobile networks need to be ready to deliver one gigabyte per user per day, downloaded at speeds more than ten times the current level.

Watch for our series of #1Gbperday$ launches to see how Nokia Siemens Networks continues to bring enhancements and innovations to the market to help operators handle the smartphone surge, improve video quality, realize revenue opportunities from network and customer insight, ensure LTE security, and most importantly, make money from mobile broadband.

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Press releases

2013-05-21 | Mobile operators: make cellular and Wi-Fi work together #1GBperday$

Nokia Siemens Networks enables advanced Wi-Fi traffic steering capabilities, enhances residential connectivity

Nokia Siemens Networks is enhancing its Smart Wi-Fi solution to provide the industry’s most comprehensive traffic steering capabilities between cellular and Wi-Fi networks. The company is also launching a new 3G Femtocell Access Point for seamless connectivity in residential areas. By enhancing cellular networks with Wi-Fi and residential access points, operators can ensure seamless connectivity and positive customer experience across all networks.

2013-05-20 | Nokia Siemens Networks Liquid Broadband brings best ever video #1GBperday$

Advanced video optimization matches video quality with smartphone capabilities

With mobile video traffic expected to more than double every year until 2015, operators need a new and effective way to satisfy growing demand for network and service quality *. Nokia Siemens Networks is launching a combined video optimization solution that delivers a high quality video experience while simultaneously reducing radio network loading by up to 25%. By combining the capabilities of Flexi Content Optimizer, policy management and new real-time congestion awareness, which is unique to Nokia Siemens Networks, operators can match video quality to each user's device.

2013-05-13 | Nokia Siemens Networks signs memorandum of understanding (MoU) for OSS interoperability initiative (OSSii)

Reduces Operations Support Systems (OSS) integration costs and enables shorter time-to-market for new services

The major OSS players Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson and Huawei have initiated and signed a MoU enabling utilization of OSS innovations across the industry. To help operators simplify network operations and reduce costs, the companies have agreed to cross-license the OSS interfaces used for multi-vendor network management.

2013-05-13 | Mobile operators: use CEM business insight to delight your best customers #1GBperday$
  • New near real-time business insight helps to prioritize capacity, network decisions
  • Enables value-based profiling of the best customers to strengthen loyalty with personalized offers

Nokia Siemens Networks is extending its Customer Experience Management (CEM) portfolio to enable operators to pinpoint their best customers by service and location. With this insight, operators can focus on boosting the satisfaction of those customers who bring in the most revenue. The new capabilities are also a powerful way to counter the rising risk of churn, which has swelled to 39% across all markets and subscriber groups, an increase of more than 20% in one year according to Nokia Siemens Networks’ 2013 Acquisition and Retention Study Report.* 

2013-05-10 | Nokia Siemens Networks gives operators full control, confidence in network automation #1GBperday$

Enhanced transparency, control over network automation free up time to focus on customer expectations for service quality

Nokia Siemens Networks is making it easier than ever for operators to deploy network automation. New capabilities for Nokia Siemens Networks intelligent Self Organizing Networks (iSON) manage every aspect of self-configuration, self-optimization and self-healing to save time and costs and improve network quality. Tools for automating these processes, all available from a single interface, guide the operator from start to finish, verifying the successful completion of each step. They also help operators meet high subscriber expectations for quality, which are clear from the results of the 2013 Acquisition & Retention Study Report*, and take advantage of their willingness to pay more for it.

2013-05-08 | Mobile operators: keep your customers loyal by focusing on voice, data quality #1GBperday$
  • Number of people likely to switch mobile operator has jumped by more than 20%*
  • Global sales of smartphones now outpace sales of feature phones**
  • Nokia Siemens Networks launches product, service innovations to help operators profitably address growing expectations for quality in the fast-growing smartphone market

The number of people likely to switch mobile operators is now 39% globally and has jumped by more than 20% in one year, according to the 2013 Acquisition and Retention Study Report* from Nokia Siemens Networks. The study underscores the importance of both Internet quality, which has become a deciding factor in the choice of operators in mature markets, and voice quality, which is key in other markets. To help operators address these expectations, Nokia Siemens Networks is launching a series of product and service innovations to help grow and target network capacity, simplify operations and improve the customer experience.

Earlier press releases
2013-02-27 | Nokia Siemens Networks wins TD-LTE Market Development Award #MWC13

Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) recognizes company’s TD-LTE global advances and deployments

Nokia Siemens Networks has won the GTI Market Development Award 2013, confirming its leadership in TD-LTE and contribution to a strong TD-LTE ecosystem. Nokia Siemens Networks’ TD-LTE innovations allow operators to use their valuable spectrum more effectively, serve more customers profitably, and converge TD-LTE and FDD LTE to meet steep data demand.
 

2013-02-25 | IBM and Nokia Siemens Networks announce world’s first mobile edge computing platform #MWC13

Nokia Siemens Networks and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today a collaboration to deliver the world’s first mobile edge computing platform that can run applications directly within a mobile base station. This new platform allows mobile operators to create a truly unique mobile experience, relieve the ever increasing strain on network infrastructure and bring completely new solutions to market.

2013-02-25 | SK Telecom, Nokia Siemens Networks collaborate on Liquid Applications #MWC13

SK Telecom and Nokia Siemens Networks are working together to evaluate Nokia Siemens Networks’ newly launched Liquid Applications in the operator’s LTE network. Following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two companies in August 2012, they will sign an agreement on February 27, 2013 during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013, to cooperate in the testing of Liquid Applications.

2013-02-25 | Nokia Siemens Networks revolutionizes the mobile base station #MWC13

Biggest transformation in the role of the base station since launch of GSM 22 years ago

Nokia Siemens Networks is fundamentally changing the role of the base station in the mobile network. Since the launch of GSM in 1991, the mobile – or cellular - base station has been the part of the network that just transmits and receives radio signals to create a connection with a mobile phone or device. Now, Nokia Siemens Networks is turning the base station into an intelligent part of a mobile operator’s network, to serve and deliver local content.

2013-02-22 | Innovating for a world in motion from Nokia Siemens Networks at #MWC13

Leading up to the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013, Nokia Siemens Networks has launched a series of new products, upgrades and services that can help operators deliver a gigabyte of personalized data, per user, per day, profitably. Along with the recently launched innovations, other groundbreaking technologies, including a fundamentally different way for operators to deliver content, will be on show at the company’s Experience Center at MWC 2013 in Barcelona next week.

2013-02-20 | Nokia Siemens Networks enhances LTE network capacity, coverage and security #MWC13
  • Unveils three Single RAN Advanced products for better capacity and coverage
  • Prevents security breaches with flexible end-to-end security architecture

Nokia Siemens Networks is launching the industry’s smallest high-power remote radio heads. The 2-pipe version is ideal for spectrum refarming deployments and a 4-pipe version is designed for use with advanced antenna systems. New industry-leading baseband integration provides up to twice the capacity for LTE and HSPA+ without additional space requirements. Industry-leading security services for LTE address latent security risks.

2013-02-20 | Nokia Siemens Networks showcases TD-LTE breakthroughs #MWC13
  • Demonstrates offloading of single device between TD-LTE and FDD-LTE service
  • Chief exec Rajeev Suri to speak on TD-LTE innovation, at GTI Summit, Feb 26

Nokia Siemens Networks is highlighting TD-LTE innovation at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. This includes a demonstration of data traffic offloading between TD-LTE and FDD-LTE* using the company’s Single RAN Advanced Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station and a commercially available dual-mode (FDD and TDD) end-user device. The demonstration, and the company’s commercial momentum in TD-LTE, will be highlighted by Rajeev Suri in a keynote address to the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) Summit on February 26, the second day of the Barcelona event.
 

2013-02-19 | Nokia Siemens Networks expands small cell portfolio to increase mobile broadband capacity #MWC13

New small cell products and services help operators deliver optimal coverage and capacity across all service areas

Nokia Siemens Networks will highlight an extended small cell portfolio at Mobile World Congress 2013. This includes new Micro and Pico base stations for LTE and Wi-Fi, designed to complement standard base station capacity in hot zones - areas of high subscriber density. The new Micro and Pico bases stations can be integrated into the company’s Flexi Zone architecture that has been specifically designed to target mobile traffic hot zones.

2013-02-19 | Nokia Siemens Networks Smart Wi-Fi makes mobile integration seamless #MWC13

Traffic steering capabilities create HetNet, give operators greater control over customer experience

Nokia Siemens Networks is launching Smart Wi-Fi to seamlessly integrate wireless local area networks (WLAN) with cellular, mobile networks. Smart Wi-Fi comprises four elements that combine operator-controlled Wi-Fi and cellular services into a Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) with traffic steering capabilities. This allows operators to select the best wireless access technology to deliver a secure, convenient mobile broadband experience for customers.

2013-02-18 | Nokia Siemens Networks new software features create more broadband capacity #MWC13

Updated Liquid Radio Software Suites enhance use of GSM, WCDMA and LTE networks and spectrum to offer a better mobile broadband user experience

Nokia Siemens Networks is introducing a range of new features to its Liquid Radio Software Suites* to help operators address constantly changing capacity demands. The update includes a new LTE Software Suite as well as new WCDMA and GSM Software Suite applications. The improved set of features across the range of Liquid Radio Software Suites enable operators to move toward 100 times greater WCDMA uplink capacity to meet growing capacity demand. They can also help release 35% of GSM spectrum for use by WCDMA and LTE, and ensure that LTE networks and spectrum are fully utilized.

2013-02-15 | Nokia Siemens Networks simplifies network & service operations #MWC13

New suite of products and services addresses challenge of simplifying operations for mobile operators as underlying network becomes increasingly complex

Nokia Siemens Networks is launching a suite of products and services to help operators cut through the growing complexity of running mobile broadband networks. The new products and services are required as operators expand 3G networks, roll out LTE (long term evolution), and deploy small cells.

2013-02-14 | Mobile operators: Make it ‘love at first sight’ when you introduce LTE #MWC13
  • Nokia Siemens Networks enhances Customer Experience Management for LTE
  • Study shows up to 40% US subscribers considering leaving their service provider

Nokia Siemens Networks is enhancing its Customer Experience Management (CEM) portfolio with support for LTE (long term evolution). This will help operators ensure that their LTE customers enjoy the best service quality and experience from day one. The new capabilities in the CEM portfolio will be commercially available in June 2013 as a stand-alone package or upgrade.

2013-02-13 | Nokia Siemens Networks continues #1GBperday$ campaign with #MWC13 launches

Unveils Wizard of Cells that turns the work of mobile operators into a fun game!

In the run-up to the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013, Nokia Siemens Networks will launch a series of new products, upgrades and services that demonstrate it is ‘Innovating for a world in motion™’. These aim to help operators deliver a gigabyte of personalized data per day to every user by 2020 – and deliver it profitably. The launches will culminate in an extension to the company’s ‘Liquid Net’ approach, an innovation that will give mobile base stations an entirely new role in the communications ecosystem.

2012-10-10 | Mobile operators: Are you effectively managing your customers’ service experience? #1GBperday$

Nokia Siemens Networks launches Service Operations and Management solution & industry-first capability center to help operators deliver excellent mobile services

Nokia Siemens Networks is launching a comprehensive package of software and services to manage the entire lifecycle of different mobile services. The Service Operations and Management solution combines insights related to service performance with operations functions to manage mobile broadband services and tackle service degradation before subscribers experience poor quality.

2012-10-09 | Mobile operators: Would your customers rate your mobile service the best? #1GBperday$

Nokia Siemens Networks’ new CEM on Demand content packs and services help prioritize operations, focus investments and improve customer care

Nokia Siemens Networks is enhancing its award-winning Customer Experience Management (CEM) on Demand portal by adding three, new, software content packs and related services. These content packs help operators pinpoint problems on internet-based maps in seconds and rank the individual customer perception of any problem they experience. In addition, they provide detailed trends in service use and experience for the customer care department.

2012-10-03 | Mobile operators: Are you getting the max from your 3G network? #1GBperday$?

Nokia Siemens Networks combines three powerful WCDMA software features to improve profitability of mobile broadband

Nokia Siemens Networks has introduced its Liquid Radio WCDMA software suite to boost performance of existing WCDMA networks. Building on the capabilities of the company’s Liquid Net, the advanced software combines three powerful and complementary features. This approach aims to deliver faster data uploads and extract the full benefit from network resources and smartphone capabilities.

2012-10-02 | Mobile operators, what’s your optimum mix of macro and small cells? #1GBperday$

Nokia Siemens Networks combines market-leading small cell products and services to help operators monetize mobile broadband

Nokia Siemens Networks is launching a new package of services to ensure operators have the most profitable blend of macro and small cells. The company is also launching a new, second-generation 3G femto access point that provides mobile coverage in the home or small office. Both launches are additions to the company’s Liquid Net portfolio, aimed at allowing capacity to flow through networks to provide mobile operators the best return on investment.

2012-10-01 | Nokia Siemens Networks expands LTE portfolio to optimize spectrum use #1GBperday$
  • Supports LTE for Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) 700 MHz frequency band
  • Introduces Liquid Radio LTE load-balancing, plans commercialization of carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced

Nokia Siemens Networks today announced the expansion of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) portfolio. The company aims to help mobile operators increase their coverage and further improve network efficiency and speed.

2012-09-27 | Mobile operators: could you be profitable providing everyone a gigabyte a day of personalized data? #1GBperday$
  • Nokia Siemens Networks to introduce innovative approach to offering profitable mobile broadband while delighting users
  • Liquid Net, Customer Experience Management launches in October 2012

Nokia Siemens Networks is setting in motion a series of portfolio launches and updates during October 2012. These will culminate in a new approach to delivering mobile broadband, charting a path for operators to be able to profitably provide a gigabyte of personalized data per day for every user by 2020.

2012-09-18 | Nokia Siemens Networks sets TD-LTE speed record, goes beyond 4G - #1GBperday$

Equivalent to full HD movie download in 24 seconds on a commercial 4G platform

Nokia Siemens Networks has achieved world record TD-LTE throughput speeds of 1.6 Gigabits per second (Gbps). In the demonstration, the company used its commercial Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station to receive and send data in simultaneous downlink and uplink connections, reaching an overall speed of 1.6 Gbps. At this speed, a 3 Gigabyte (GB) high definition (HD) movie would download in just 24 seconds while over 1.7 GB of data could be uploaded at the same time, all via mobile broadband.