Nokia Siemens Networks Offers New Mobile Broadband Experience

Nokia Siemens Networks, leading global telecommunications enabler is transforming mobile broadband user experience in the Middle East Africa (MEA) region with its Long-Term Evolution (LTE).
LTE delivers improved and faster data speeds to support a suite of multimedia and rich call applications.
LTE is the de-facto evolution path of the 3G mobile standard that is based on a full flat IP architecture and is optimized for data and multimedia traffic. Having demonstrated the world’s first LTE demo with data speeds up to 160 Mb/s, Nokia Siemens Networks has been at the forefront of developments in this space.
“The timing of our road show could not be more opportune,” said Mohamed Abdelrehim, head of Networks Systems, Middle East and Africa, for Nokia Siemens Networks. “With Nigeria growing demand and need for mobile broadband, the growth for the country’s operators will now come from advanced mobile data service offerings and not basic connectivity.”
In Middle East Africa specifically, Nokia Siemens Networks was behind the region’s first LTE contract with Zain Bahrain. “Leading the evolution of broadband technology means our customers will be the first to benefit,” added Mohamed. “Today, we are reinforcing our vision of five billion people connected by 2015, via a showcase of the latest next generation mobile broadband technology to mobile operators in the region.”
“LTE will truly revolutionize the region’s mobile market, changing the way businesses and individuals communicate. The technology will unleash a plethora of new devices such as Internet telephones and videophones to end user services such as teleconferencing, telecommuting, to wider benefits in medical services such as remote diagnosis, interactive distance education, rich multimedia entertainment, digitally-controlled home appliances and much more.
“What’s more the Nokia Siemens Networks LTE proposition is based on software upgrades to current 3G networks that are currently deployed by a majority of regional mobile operators,” added Mohamed
Nokia Siemens Networks’ solution’s Flexi Base Station supports multiple technologies from GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/HSPA to LTE on a single platform. Being only 20% of the size and weight of a conventional base station, it is energy efficient and designed to minimize the overall cost of network operation and maintenance.   
Nokia Siemens Networks is the first to kick off LTE road show in Nigeria, Morocco, Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi, Arabia and South Africa.
Nokia Siemens Networks is also conducting LTE trials in live network environments with leading operators around the globe, gaining valuable experience on LTE air interface performance in the field. Nokia Siemens Networks uses the results of these trials to ensure its products and solutions and planning processes are fully optimised for commercial network rollouts.