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The New Nokia Booster Site Triples Coverage Area
September 10, 1997
Today, at the PCS show in Dallas, Nokia is introducing the new Nokia Booster Site. The Nokia Booster is an optional base station plug-in unit, with the capability to increase the output power of a GSM base station by some 300%.
"The new Nokia Booster Site is an important addition to the Nokia GSM system family, further strengthening Nokia's position as a forerunner in base station subsystems. It is a unique product in today's market, offering coverage increases and cost-savings for operators," states Olli Oittinen, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Radio Access Systems.
Deploying the Nokia Booster in a GSM network can bring significant cost-savings to operators. Cell sites are significantly reduced resulting in savings in site construction, equipment and implementation work during the coverage roll-out phase. In the longer term, the Nokia Booster provides considerable savings in network operation and maintenance. The reduced number of sites brings savings in transmission, technical support, site visits and software upgrades.
The advanced design of the Nokia Booster unit enables easy implementation for network operators. It can be inserted in an existing Nokia Talk-family base station (BTS). The Nokia Booster easily fits into the BTS thus no special racks are required, and all alarms and operation functions can be managed from one network management system, the Nokia NMS/2000.
Nokia offers total GSM systems, with everything from digital mobile phones to transmission to switching. Having supplied GSM technology to to 61 operators in 33 countries Nokia ranks as one of the two leading suppliers of GSM networks.
Wireless networks based on GSM - the global standard for mobile telecommunications - have been deployed by 239 operators throughout the world. There are currently 50 million GSM subscribers in 109 countries.
For more information, please contact:
Nokia Telecommunications, Communications Department
Tel. (Int.) + 358 9 5113 8197
Fax (Int.) + 358 9 5113 8199
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