Sprint held a media conference call yesterday at 11:00 am announcing their plans to enhance services such as coverage, quality and speed. Sprint has awarded contracts to Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Samsung to bring Network Vision to life by implementing multimode technologies that will do the enhancing for them.
Their goal is to create network flexibility, reduce operating costs and improve environmental sustainability as well as providing better coverage, quality and speed. Take a look at what Sprint had to say about their recent decisions.
“Network Vision builds on our legacy of wireless innovation and represents the next step in the evolution of our networks to best meet unprecedented growth in mobility services. We are well-positioned to take advantage of new technology, chipsets, devices and applications. Working with these three partners, we expect to deliver to our customers the most cutting-edge network capabilities available today and in the future.”
Currently Sprint uses separate equipment to deploy services on 800MHz spectrum, 1.9GHz spectrum and, through its relationship with Clearwire, 2.5GHz spectrum. With the New Network Vision Plans Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Samsung will install new network equipment and software that brings together multiple spectrum bands on a single, multimode base station. (See ‘Current vs. New cell site’ at theSprint Network Vision Information Center.)
The implementation of multi-mode technology throughout the Sprint network is designed to:
- Enhance service – Improve quality and data speed; improve in-building coverage and coverage within the network footprint
- Create network flexibility – Ensure the most effective expansion of 4G
- Reduce operating costs by delivering capital efficiency, lease reductions, roaming savings and backhaul efficiencies
- Improve environmental sustainability by reducing carbon footprint and energy consumption needs
In addition to implementing multimode base stations, the Sprint Network Vision plan also encompasses next-generation push-to-talk (PTT) with broadband capabilities and the integration of multimode chipsets into smartphones, tablets and other broadband devices, including machine-to-machine (M2M) capabilities. Say what? Did you ever expect to hear that? I sure didn’t with all the talk about Nextel going out of business or being sold to the government. Guess those rumors aren’t true.
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Source: Sprint
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