Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) replacing their RAN with Huawei

Source: telecoms.com

Interesting to see VHA replacing their RAN network. Also Optus is working with NSN & Huawei and if they choose NSN,  then it's became a testing ground for the three largest telecom vendors in australia (Telstra is with Ericsson). VHA didn't specify what was the root cause or actual case behind the dropped calls, delayed sms & voice mails, slow data speeds and long waits to customer care :) but I don't think the problem is completely with the radio network. It was working pretty well until middle of last year and during the second half the performance drop became pretty obvious.

Most of the carriers I've seen had the problems during the early days of HS launches. This is due to various reasons but main culprit is the optimization and configuration. So hopefully VHA managed to find the root cause and they are addressing it by replacing their RAN.

 By the way I am not a radio expert so the comments about radio are based on my conversation with radio experts rather than from my own experience.



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