Alcatel-Lucent Deploys HSUPA Network for mobilkom austria

Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has successfully deployed its HSUPA solution in all Alcatel-Lucent NodeB base stations of mobilkom austria's network in Austria. The completed project now enables mobilkom austria to offer its customers mobile broadband services with an uplink speed of up to 1.4 Mbps, which is five to ten times faster than the network speed prior to the upgrade. The network deployment was carried out with the help of Alcatel-Lucent's local partner, Kapsch CarrierCom.

"Alcatel-Lucent's dedicated goal is to assist our customers in their effort to provide top quality services by delivering the latest technology, and Alcatel-Lucent's HSUPA solution fully meets this demand," added Philippe Keryer, President of Alcatel-Lucent's GSM/W-CDMA/WiMAX activities. "mobilkom austria's decision is another positive result of our acquisition of Nortel's 3G UMTS access business, and it provides further proof that this acquisition will help us gain momentum in the telecoms market."

HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) is a wireless network standard designed to improve uplink transmission rates, allowing data transfer speeds of up to 5.7 Mbps. The HSUPA solution provided by Alcatel-Lucent allows users to faster upload large files, such as presentations and videos and especially benefits data-intensive multimedia applications such as voice and video over IP, file sharing, interactive connected gaming, video sharing.

"Alcatel-Lucent has been chosen as supplier of HSUPA equipment for mobilkom austria because Alcatel-Lucent's technology is one of the most advanced on the market and has proven its reliability in a test phase in Graz," said Ulrich Rokita, Head of Network Planning, mobilkom austria. "mobilkom austria is strongly relying on Alcatel-Lucent's capability to deliver and support leading edge wireless technology in order to help mobilkom austria to maintain and even extend its position as one of the most advanced mobile operators in Central and Eastern Europe."

mobilkom austria is the largest mobile operator in Austria, with more than 3.7 million customers. Headquartered in Vienna, the company has launched the first GPRS service in August 2000, followed by one of Europe's first commercial UMTS networks in Austria in April 2003 and HSDPA network in January 2006. The mobilkom austria group includes mobilkom austria, Vipnet in Croatia, Si.mobil in Slovenia, Mobiltel in Bulgaria, mobilkom liechtenstein and Vip mobile in Serbia.