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Telecommunications Nokia Siemens to build 900MHz WCDMA net for Vodafone NZ
Telecommunications Nokia Siemens to build 900MHz WCDMA net for Vodafone NZ | Nokia Siemens to build 900MHz WCDMA net for Vodafone NZ |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 12 June 2007 | |
  
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According to Nokia Siemens, WCDMA 900 can provide a two - to four-fold increase in coverage compared to WCDMA 2100. "The lower number of base stations reduces site and transport related investment and operational costs, leading to an overall significant reduction of network deployment costs in rural areas." Commercial delivery of the new WCDMA 900 nodes will start in July 2007. The service is expected to go live in the first half of 2008." Vodafone's decision to go with 900MHz boasts well for Optus which earlier this year announced planst o extend its 3G network from coverage of 96 percent of the population to 98 percent. It did not commit to which frequency it would use but estimated the cost at 900MHz would around $500m and at 2100MHz, around $800m. Optus said at the time that lack of handsets could be problem for the lower frequency. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9040/127/ Optus announced in April that it had completed trials of 900MHz 3G network equipment from Nokia Siemens in preparation for the planned network expansion. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11354/127/ Nokia Siemens announced technical trials of its 900MHz equipment in February, with French telco SFR. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9426/127/ Nokia Siemens will ue the Nokia Flexi base station, claimed to have unique features supporting co-existence of GSM and WCDMA in the same frequency band. Earlier this month Vodafone NZ' srival, Telecom NZ, announced plans to rollout a WCDMA network and close down its CDMA network (once Telstra shuts down its CDMA network NZ users will be unable to roam to Australia). However it will operate the CDMA network for at leat five years. Telecom NZ said that buildout of the WCDMA network would commence in late 2007 at a cost of approximately $NZ300 million in capital expenditure over the next two years. "This is approximately $NZ200 million more than would have been spent over the next five years under a CDMA-only path," it said. Alcatel Lucent has been awarded the contract to supply and install the network.{moscomment} |
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