Nokia Siemens Networks will provide Telenor Sweden with a complete 3G upgrade. With this pioneering agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will expand its energy efficient Flexi Multi Radio Base Station to the entire network of Telenor. To enable Telenor to offer high speed mobile broadband services across Sweden, it will upgrade the core of network to boost both capacity and functionality.
Besides, Nokia Siemens Networks will also offer network management systems as well as project management, planning, implementation and optimization of services. With an objective to conveniently cater to the demand for statistical growth in bandwidth, it will offer Telenor Sweden with a full upgrade to its 3G radio network.
“Our ambition is to build Sweden’s best mobile broadband network, responding to the huge demand on the market to provide high-quality, high-speed services,” said Lars-Ake Norling, CEO for Telenor in Sweden. “Nokia Siemens Networks showed not only the best and a cost-efficient technology solution, but also the strongest commitment and best local delivery capabilities to meet our ambitious time-to market requirement.”
Nokia Siemens Networks claims that the award-winning Flexi Multi Radio Base Station technology will offer 21Mbit/s HSPA+ services throughout the network. It will also enhance the functionality and capabilities of the core network with IP-connectivity and deliver common register for GSM, 3G and LTE access.
“Supporting Telenor Sweden in its efforts to ensure everybody in the country can have access to a broadband connection is in line with our own market vision of broadband everywhere in a few years,” said Aril Aanonsen, Head of Telenor Customer Team at Nokia Siemens Networks. “The Swedish market is world leading in its mobile experience and we are confident we can bring further scale and improved quality to Telenor’s mobile broadband services.”
To ensure that high quality services are delivered to Telenor Sweden consumers, the NetAct network management system will help in examining, managing and optimizing the network.
With the turn-key agreement, Telenor Sweden will also receive project management, network implementation, planning and optimization along with software, hardware and competence development. With these services, Telenor Sweden is assured of the availability of high quality, high availability network, anywhere.