M1 is set to start an LTE trial in February 2010. Undertaken in collaboration with Nokia Siemens Networks, the trial will last two months and it includes Nokia Siemens Networks’ Flexi Multiradio base stations that enhance network coverage and capacity, while lowering site power consumption. Evolved Packet Core nodes are provided as part of the trial.
Nokia Siemens Networks is also providing its mobile softswitching and subscriber data management core network offerings and its NetAct network management system, network optimization and related maintenance services to ensure network quality.
Patrick Scodeller, chief technical officer of M1, said: ”Our network modernization contract with Nokia Siemens Networks represented our first steps in our evolution to LTE. The trial will help pave the way for faster and better quality mobile broadband services in the future.
“The extensive use of Nokia Siemens Network’s proven energy efficient equipment will ensure that we have in place a network that is well able to meet the increasingly demanding environmental standards now and in the future.”
