In New Delhi: Telecom major Airtel has partnered with Ericsson, to provide 21mbps speed to its 3G customers in Delhi and NCR. The networking major has deployed the core and radio technology to provide an advanced network infrastructure, to support the 3G services, supporting 7.6 m customers.
At present, Airtel uses a 3G network based on WCDMA/HSPA technology including services like network rollout, network design, network integration and training.
Its current network comprises over 1800 radio base stations, based on multi-standard radio access portfolio, RBS 6000, and the core technology, that can increase the capacity of the network and evolve it into an IP network.
Ericsson estimates the mobile broadband customers will hit the one billion mark in 2011, nearly half of which is projected to be concentrated in the Asia Pacific region. It adds that by 2016, the number of mobile broadband customers will be close to 5 billion, with 95 percent on HSPA, CDMA and LTE networks.
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