Today’s business environment is changing in a faster pace than ever seen before – especially within the fast-evolving mobile network industry. Business environment together with all available technical solutions and the fierce competition within the mobile operator industry creates an even more complex environment.
With all existing possibilities, mobile network operators are able to adapt to the situation as desired, how complex it ever may be. However, the increased complexity puts even greater demands on experience and knowledge as the necessary keys to address problems with and to find solutions for in the best possible way, in order to create the needed advantages towards competition.
IQMTEL, with its long experience within the network consulting sector, and how to run radio access networks has the necessary keys to make the difference and walk the extra mile.
IQMTEL has a wide variety of service offers, starting from the early planning and tuning activities to more mature radio access network services, where optimization and planning are crucial areas to understand, master and improve. All areas can be handled from “easy” newly built networks to the most advanced multi-vendor and multi-standard network with integrated femto cells etc. throughout the complete network life cycle.
We can support you and your organization within many important areas and some examples are:
IQMTEL supports our business partners within the mobile network domain to:
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Here follows additional information about the different services included in the IQMTEL network consulting sphere.
The focus for the network design service is to achieve best possible planning of coverage, capacity, availability, quality and cost-efficient solutions throughout the new and/or existing architecture. How well the network is planned and built is directly connected to the performance of the network and it is of vital importance that the foundation is good – also when it comes expansion of the existing ecosystem to achieve a highly rated end-user experience.
In existing networks awaiting expansions, it is possible to base the design also on existing traffic scenarios, which will achieve an even more reliable and sustainable design where future demands can easier be computed and estimated and through an intelligent way of working be able to decrease the needed investment, since expansions can be performed only where they are really needed. This will support to run the complete network life cycle in a more efficient and productive way.
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The initial tuning service focus is to investigate, improve and adjust a newly planned and built network and/or new expansion(s) prior to the commercial launch. After the initial tuning service, the new network shall be prepared to carry commercial traffic with the desired performance and end-user experience.
Once the network is up and running with commercial traffic the initial tuning activity can continue if desired or to be replaced by network optimization activities.
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The benchmarking service focus is to understand how well the network is performing both compared with the own existing network, but also how well it performs compared with competition. The benchmarking service is using trends analysis and means to interpret historic and new facts to understand whether the network is better or worse performing than earlier or compared with competition. During the service, areas with decreased performance will be identified and addressed and ways to improve the performance will be suggested.
How the network is performing is vital to understand, to be able to address many important aspects like: churn rate, end-user experience, competition, investments, decrease expenditures etc.
Performance is key!
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Focal point for the network planning service is to predict the future based on trends analysis and forecasting and by doing so, be able to achieve the best possible scenario to balance investments vs. network performance. Utterly important is to understand traffic patterns, existing geography and different development and deployment scenarios and future needs when it comes to availability, coverage, capacity and quality of experience etc.
With a well-performing network planning area, investments can be done later and just before they are needed – no need to have non-utilized capacity until it is really needed. With a higher accuracy in the planning, it will be possible lower the investment cost and at a later stage, increase profitability and improve the subscriber experience, which will lead to decreased churn and so on.
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The main network optimization focus is to achieve the best possible balance in the network, focusing on availability, quality, coverage and capacity, which is often handled by changing hundreds of parameter settings based on competent analysis and conclusions from the existing network information through statistics (counters, event information, drive tests etc). By doing so, it is possible to achieve the desired performance and end-user experience in the optimum way in relation to the investment made and therefore also lower the cost per GB or per minute of voice calls etc.
The service offer in the network optimization area can include traditional optimization, like: top 10 worst performers, basic parameter handling, parameter settings of new and existing features and functions, enhance performance further at software upgrades, troubleshooting etc. But it can also contain more advanced areas like traffic steering, utilizing resources more efficiently in a multi-standard scenario, offload traffic to small cells and much more, all based on existing and future needs.
Furthermore, the service can include optimization of applications and end-user services to achieve the desired end-user experience and quality to the lowest possible investment.
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