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Introduction Network Norway is the number three challenger in the Norwegian mobile sector. It has 1.1 million subscribers giving it an 18 per cent market share. Its revenues are 2 billion Kroner (US$ 300 million) and it deploys three brands in its home market. It decided to work with NEC to develop an enterprise-oriented Femtocell service as both a customer retention tool and a service quality differentiator. Challenges The Enterprise market is made up of demanding customers who completely rely on their mobile phones to stay in touch with their own customers. To win and keep business customers, it is necessary for Network Norway to develop a viable solution but one which didn’t demand in-house expertise and management time from the customer, or impose an onerous system monitoring or cost burden on Network Norway. Solution NEC’s Femtocell solution employs very small mobile base stations which are sited inside the customer’s premises to provide cellular coverage indoors, using the operator’s own licensed spectrum. The tiny ‘femtos’ are connected to the customer’s existing broadband services so that all voice, messaging and data is routed across the Internet and on to the operator’s core network where it joins the regular ‘macro’ traffic. Results The NEC Femtocell approach works for both the operator and the customer. ‘Plug and play’ is important for the customer, while self-organisation is a must to minimise operational expenditure (OPEX). Femtocells have a future at Network Norway. “We have great confidence in the Femtocell product,” says Geir Jenssen, Head of Femtocells at Network Norway, “and we seek to develop the solution further and bring the femtocell experience into new markets.”
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