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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Page 2 of 2 Nokia Siemens boasts that it’s doing well in the older world of 2G, GSM/EDGE deployments too, and even breaking records. Featured Whitepaper
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What has helped Nokia Siemens onto the road to success with GSM and 3G? The company says it can be “put down to the environmental credentials of its Flexi Base Station; the world's most energy efficient.” Jumping aboard the green bandwagon, Nokia Siemens says its "green" Flexi Base Station now “provides over 200 mobile operators with base station site energy savings of up to 70%, when compared to traditional products.” Of course, operators would likely need to upgrade, but with 70% savings being waved about the capex needs to be balanced with ROI and obviously quite a few telco’s though it was worth it. And just as computer and electronics manufacturers are being forced to think of a product’s lifecycle all the way through to recycling, so too has Nokia Siemens. It says its Flexi Base Station is “designed in a way that reduces its environmental impact over its whole life cycle; over 90% of its materials are suitable for recycling.” But naturally, Nokia Siemens has no intention of stopping here, promising to continue focusing on “further reducing the energy consumption of its radio network products and by 2011 Nokia Siemens Networks expects to be able to power the majority of base stations deployed at remote locations, without access to grid power, from renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind-power.” Oooooh... off the grid power. Networks will then, in theory, stay up even after hurricanes or some other natural disasters that lead to power cuts, resulting in better networks for consumers, which is both no bad thing, and something consumers would simply expect to be the normal rate of progress. Nokia Siemens is also sure to point out that its Flexi Base Stations are software upgradeable to HSPA evolution and in the not-too-distant future HSPA’s true successor, LTE or Long Term Evolution... and even WiMAX if that ever really takes off in the way that HSPA has and LTE promises to. Nokia Siemens also makes some “vision” type statements about ensuring that “radio evolution is not only about peak data rates but also improving consumers' service experience in multiple ways, from longer cell phone battery life to shorter voice or data call set-up time.” So... unless the current financial crisis ends up being far deeper and goes for longer than anyone is truly expecting, the future of telecommunications and high speed wireless Internet access seems fantastic, whether it’s Nokia Siemens, Ericsson or someone else delivering the WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA Evolution/LTE equipment. Phew! |
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