Alcatel-Lucent has reportedly announced that KT (News - Alert), a service provider based in Korea, has activated a fourth carrier in its W-CDMA network.

 

KT said that it’s now able to handle more traffic and end-users with the same number of Node Bs and provide the same quality of service due to the deployment of the scalable network architecture by Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) and LG-Nortel. With smooth software upgrade, the fourth carrier was activated in more than 700 sites.

 

“By launching Alcatel-Lucent’s fourth W-CDMA carrier, we are now able to serve our fast growing traffic demand effectively with secured network stability,” said JS Koh, senior vice president for Mobile R&D Laboratory at KT, in a statement.

 

Alcatel-Lucent’s W-CDMA networks offer capacity licensing, enabling operators to activate additional carriers by software upgrade wherever required. With this flexible option, mobile operators can reduce their carbon footprint. In addition, they can also adapt their CAPEX to their subscriber base when facing voice and data traffic surge on their network, company officials said.

 

Sean Dolan, president for Asia-Pacific at Alcatel-Lucent, said that the number of KT’s W-CDMA subscribers has multiplied four-fold over the last two years reaching more than 10 million users.

 

“As an entrusted partner of KT, this project further demonstrates Alcatel-Lucent’s leadership in advanced wireless technology and our capabilities to support fast growing networks,” Dolan said in a statement.

 

Alcatel-Lucent said that it has deployed 350 commercial wireless networks worldwide, including more than 56 W-CDMA customers in 37 countries. The company’s networks architecture is based on its converged radio access network strategy allowing scaling of W-CDMA networks and smooth evolution to LTE (News - Alert).

 

Earlier this month, the company strengthened its working relationship with Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Company by signing a multi million Euro contract to deploy the second phase of Eastern Libya’s optical fiber network.