Mobile Broadband to be boosted by Smart Base Stations

The popular research agency focusing on telecommunications segment – particularly mobile broadband network technology – has claimed that users would be seeing improved mobile network coverage once the recycling of the spectrum earmarked for older technologies is carried out using fresher base stations, which could offer multiple services.

The research agency ABI Research has said in its report that a rapidly surging wave of upgrades would be witnessed in the next few years, which would involve the addition of a baseband line card or a simple update of software to existing baseband cards.

According to the mobile networks practice editor at ABI Research, Aditya Kaul, the first multi-standard upgrade increase would be coming from the developing markets, which were currently hastily deploying 3G broadband networks, although further momentum could be witnessed in the mature markets’ LTE rollouts.

Kaul added that the re-farming of the mobile broadband spectrum was one of the significant drivers for this emerging wave of upgrades, and like many other resources of nature, new spectrum was fast getting scarce, although considerable amounts allocated previously were underutilised or not utilised at all.

Kaul predicts that multi-standard mobile broadband upgrades will allow the existing mobile operators to put this unused or under-used mobile spectrum to fresh uses. He cites Europe’s 900MHz radio spectrum which is currently being used in a number of countries to rollout 3G networks by means of multi-standard base stations, in spite of being originally dedicated to the use of GSM.