Nokia Siemens Networks' Multiradio Flexi makes 2G / 3G-to- LTE shift easier

Nokia Siemens Networks made quite a bit of noise at last year's CTIA by introducing an LTE solution for North America, and during this year's run-up to Mobile World Congress, it's vying for attention once more. The outfit's Flexi Multiradio Base Station is an understandably flexible solution that "meets the needs of new and existing 2G and 3G operators who can use their existing infrastructure to deploy new network-wide technologies via simple software upgrade to 3G or LTE." The true multiradio base station should ease concerns from operators worried over divvying up investment dollars for supporting various technologies, and it's even backwards compatible with existing Flexi Base Stations for those looking to spruce up their current hardware. For the consumer, this device could help carriers ease into LTE deployment more quickly, as the whole cut-and-run approach to simply axing one technology and moving over suddenly to another doesn't seem to sit well with most mega-corps.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2009 1:07PM]

does anyone think that if all of NA when LTE, wouldn't there be more LTE users here in NA than Europe? then wouldn't that mean that we would get all the cool phones and Europe gets crap like we do right now?

[lejupp Posted Feb 10th 2009 6:49AM]

That would depend on many factors. For example: You can have only so many frequency bands in one device. Imagine Europe agrees on one frequency band for all countries and operators while NA sticks with their patchwork of local frequency assignments (T-Mobile AWS-Band anyone?), then it may well be that it is more attractive to support all of Europe with one single band LTE device instead of having to design a pentaband solution for the NA market.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2009 8:03PM]

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