Europe
: Ericsson has introduced a new base station for both GSM and WCDMA
access. The compact design simplifies modernization, speeds up new
deployments and reduces total cost of ownership. It also increases
capacity by 100 percent per square meter to cater for future traffic
growth.
The new multi-access
base station allows operators to combine GSM and WCDMA in the same
footprint, reducing costs for both rollout and operation of a radio
network.
Kurt Jofs, Executive
Vice President, Business Unit Access, Ericsson, says: "The low
total cost of ownership for the multi-access base station opens up
new opportunities for operators who can address subscribers at monthly
revenues as low as USD 2."
The base station's
superior radio performance and flexible configurations can reduce
the number of sites by up to 30 percent and power consumption by 20-50
percent. Reduced size, weight and modular design mean it can be carried
to site, simplifying civil works, rollout and commissioning.
The compact design
means the base station can provide capacity of 100 GSM transceivers
or 50 WCDMA carriers per square meter, or a combination of them both.
It increases capacity per square meter by 100 percent compared with
previous industry-leading base stations from Ericsson.