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Ericsson answers to fix indoor call drops

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Krishna Mukherjee
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Unfair to blame operators for call drops

NEW DELHI: It’s hard to imagine today’s India without call drops, which have in recent days increased significantly compelling Indian government to act against telcos not willing to fix the problem.

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But Sweden-based Ericsson that is transforming itself from mere telecom gear maker to a leading ICT solutions provider has an answer to improve at least indoor call drops problems.

Its new network software 16A helps in tackling indoor call drops and the company claims that after the solution was deployed in 33 countries around the globe, call drops problems were reduced significantly.

“Indoor is the new hub of mobile activity and operators will need strategic models and services to cover this huge footprint…We are also in talks with real estate players for deployment of this solution in commercial buildings, private buildings, malls to improve indoor coverage,” said Arun Bansal, Senior Vice-President and Head of Business Unit Radio, Ericsson said during the 'Ericsson Connect' event here today.

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Ericsson is expanding its use of channel partners, such as Anixter and working with leading real estate developers and property managers, including Skansha, to create new business opportunities.

Ericsson networks software 16A features advances in uplink and downlink performance—boosting network uplink speeds by up to 200 percent, downlink speeds by up to 30 percent and adding LTE unlicensed, the first commercial step in licensed assisted access device.

“The call drops happen due to poor radio condition or low capacity, if there is no coverage there would not be any calls, and for adequate coverage, you need enough spectrum, enough sites, innovative solutions, there are multiple things.”

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“We are working with telcos and we have radio solutions which are better than our competitors and through which a call can be held longer,” Bansal added.

Ericsson networks software 16A includes two uplink enhancements that will enable mobile operators to utilize 64 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation on uplink to provide 50% better peak speeds of 75 Mbps.

In addition, it enables uplink carrier aggregation, which can double uplink data speeds. These improvements provide peak uplink data rates up to 150 Mbps, which is a 200% improvement.

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