Tusmobil Selects Nokia Siemens Networks to Boost Network Capabilities

Slovenia’s mobile operator Tusmobil has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to boost its network capabilities in order to offer differentiating high-end mobile internet, data and multimedia services to its customers.

Tusmobil and Nokia Siemens Networks have signed an agreement that will expand the operator’s network by deploying 400 environmentally-friendly base stations and expanding as well as optimizing the operator’s core network with a mobile switching solution.

Nokia Siemens Networks will provide implementation services as well as network management tools. With the current upgrade, Tusmobil’s core network will evolve towards fully convergent core architecture.

The upgrade will significantly improve network efficiency and coverage, allowing Tusmobil to offer new services to its customers, including high-speed mobile data and multimedia, like mobile television. Powered with High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology from Nokia Siemens Networks, the end users will be able to enjoy high download speeds of up to 14 Mbps, depending on mobile phone capabilities.

A key issue in addition to the cost savings and improved capacity and coverage is the environmentally friendly technology supplied. The Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi base station to be used in the project, gives power savings at site of over 60%, compared to traditional 3G equipment, and allows for a reduction of the number of sites required to provide the improved services by over 25%.

The Nokia Siemens Networks MSC Server softswitch solution, based on 3GPP Release 4, allows operators to boost switching capacity with savings of up to 70% in operating expenses, while fully supporting future IP multimedia services.