TAG | Nokia Siemens claims more than half of world’s 260m WCDMA/HSPA users |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 20 October 2008 | |
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Claiming to have an “energy efficient” 3G WCMDA/HSPA radio access solution, Nokia Siemens also says that it now “has the largest footprint of any vendor worldwide”, meaning it must have some pretty big shoes. To demonstrate how successful things have been (at least up until the economic crisis we all suddenly find ourselves in which might make 2009 somewhat different to 2007 and 2008), Nokia Siemens says it has made “more shipments of WCDMA/HSPA (so far) than during the whole year 2007”. Impressively, this figure is achieved without needing to include “WCDMA/HSPA trials, extension agreements or agreements including only 3G core networks”, which Nokia Siemens effectively criticising its competitors, some of whom are obviously being a bit naught by those who include such trials and extension agreements as “valid WCDMA/HSPA customer references”. The bigfoot of Nokia Siemens stomps again to remind us all that it delivers to “18 of the 25 biggest 3G operators in the world and the company has supplied nearly half of all currently live HSPA networks”, with “over half the world's 260 million WCDMA/HSPA subscribers connected by Nokia Siemens Networks.” Marc Rouanne, head of the company's Radio Access business, said that: “Nokia Siemens Networks radio access business is driven by the strong ambition to become the undisputed number one radio access vendor. “Our customers are hungry to provide the most reliable and satisfying 3G user experience, while spending less on the energy required to power their networks, and Nokia Siemens Networks mobile network products do exactly this." But the WCDMA/HSPA world isn’t the only place Nokia Siemens says its making an impact... please continue to page 2. |
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