Broader coverage and higher indoor speeds for 3G services without investing in new sites.
Cost effective way to extend and improve 3G services with your frequency spectrum
WCDMA Refarming Solution focuses on how to deploy WCDMA/HSPA within 900MHz or 850MHz bandwidth currently used for GSM networks. In WCDMA refarming, the available spectrum needs to be divided between GSM and WCDMA/HSPA and sufficient GSM capacity must be ensured.
Our WCDMA Refarming Solution increases radio network efficiency by improving the indoor coverage, enhancing end user experience in urban area and offer rural mobile broadband to reach new users.
The business benefits
- Decreased CAPEX and OPEX for Operators (WCDMA 900MHz enables deployment of 3G coverage with 50-70% fewer sites and 2-3 times increased cell area compared to WCDMA 2100MHz)
- Increased 3G service availability to subscribers (in urban areas HSPA 900MHz boosts HSPA data rates by 60-130 % compared to HSPA 2100MHz)
Why Nokia Siemens Networks?
- Nokia Siemens Networks is most experienced vendor in WCDMA refarming
- World's first commercial WCDMA/HSPA900 network by NSN (Elisa, Finland in Nov 2007)
- Flexible selection of bandwidth allocated to WCDMA carrier depending on the operator’s spectrum: from 4.2 MHz down to even as narrow spectrum as 3.8 MHz.
- Unique GSM software features - Liquid radio GSM SW Suite - supports re-farming with extremely narrow frequency bandwidth with same GSM performance
- Possibility to run GSM and WCDMA operations in the same band with 30% less spectrum than in conventional networks
- The leader in re-farming - Nokia Siemens Networks offers planning and implementation services for WCDMA and LTE re-farming, and has supported more than 65% of commercial WCDMA and more than 50% of commercial LTE re-farming networks
Contact us to learn more about how our refarming solution can help you extend and improve your 3G services.
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