3G Personal Repeaters
Subscriber churn is often driven by inadequate indoor 3G voice and data coverage, especially in homes and SOHOs. While personal repeaters offer a solution, to date they have not been broadly adopted. Device costs and professional installation fees have been factors. In addition, there is potential for the devices to introduce instability to the network. To overcome these issues, Qualcomm R&D has developed a 3G personal repeater technology that represents the next leap in performance for indoor, self-installed repeater systems.
This innovative 3G personal repeater technology may allow service providers to:
- Extend their macro-network coverage indoors, improving overall system performance and maximizing the revenue potential of licensed spectrum.
- Increase control of their wireless offerings since the 3G repeater uses an integrated wireless modem rather than wired broadband access.
- Reduce the costs and burdens of installation since most consumers will be able to install the devices on their own.
This technology can enable a low-cost, single-box solution, which is automatically configured to repeat only the signals of a single service provider. The innovation enables 80 dB gain in a typical indoor environment, and thus offering dual-box performance in a single-box design.
Breaking down barriers for traditional repeaters, the 3G repeater technology developed by Qualcomm will not only improve mobile broadband network performance significantly, but will also provide the operator community with a low-cost solution that reduces churn and improves subscriber satisfaction.
Podcasts
| 3G Personal Repeaters 11:56 | June 2010 | Download mp3 (11.5MB) |
White Papers
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