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Barcelona and Tokyo, Feb 16, 2010 - (ACN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today at the Mobile World Congress 2010 that it will build the first Norwegian femtocell network for Network Norway.
Network Norway will provide its enterprise customers with NEC's femtocell access point to plug into their broadband router. In addition, NEC is providing Network Norway with the NEC femto gateway and access point management systems which can aggregate and connect thousands of access points to Network Norway's core network.
Arild E. Hustad, chief executive officer, Network Norway said, "Our customers demand mobile services with excellent, stable quality. Poor indoor coverage has for a long time been an issue that needed to be solved. With NEC's femtocell solutions we are now able to carry out a pilot to commercially and technically test state-of-the-art phone services solving the problem with indoor coverage, as well as a continuous, high-speed broadband service."
NEC's low-power femtocell access point will provide a dedicated 3G network indoors for personal use by Network Norway's customers, eradicating the "no bar" coverage that mobile phone users experience within buildings. The dedicated coverage will enable Network Norway to offer those customers who have poor indoor coverage to access their favourite mobile media services on their handsets and 3G-enabled net books.
"Mobile operators are under constant pressure to offer a competitive service; femtocell is a way they can differentiate with the indoor five-bar coverage required to access capacity-intensive applications that consumers want," said Fredrik Tumegard, CEO, NEC Scandinavia. "By providing a femtocell service to its customers Network Norway is leading where we believe other mobile operators will soon follow."
About Network Norway
Network Norway has, during the last two years established itself as the locomotive of the Norwegian telecom industry. In close co-operation with leading technology environments and with a dedicated partner strategy as its driving force, Network Norway has become the fastest growing mobile operator in Norway. Network Norway has today 450.000 subscribers, including the private market brands Lebara and One Call. Network Norway's turnover reached NOK 1,65 billion in 2009, reaching a NOK 600 million organic growth during the last fiscal year. Please visit www.networknorway.no.
Contact:
Kosuke Yamauchi
NEC Corporation
+81-3-3798-6511
E-Mail: k-yamauchi@ce.jp.nec.com
Rebecca Atherley
NEC Europe Ltd.
+44-20-8752-2796
E-Mail: rebecca.atherley@eu.nec.com
Tom Guldberg
Network Norway
+47 4130 5700
E-Mail: tom.guldberg@networknorway.no
Topic: New market for product
Source: NEC Corporation
Sectors: Wireless, Apps
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