Everyone Can Enjoy MBB with Huawei Lean GU900

Everyone Can Enjoy MBB with Huawei Lean GU900

Customer Challenge:

Due to unbalanced MBB (mobile broadband) development, a digital divide is standing in the way to a fully-connected MBB world. As the golden spectrum to realize MBB broad coverage, the 900 MHz spectrum is extremely limited. To build a MBB network meeting both GSM experience and booming UMTS traffic requirements has been a great challenge.

Solution:

With a flexible bandwidth configuration (UMTS 5MHz/4.2MHz/3.8MHz), Lean GU900 can maximize spectrum efficiency and help operators deploy GU900 economically and efficiently.

Customer Benefits:

Having been applied in more than 110 networks worldwide, Lean GU900 assists global operators bridge the digital divide and helps more than 200 million people into the ubiquitous MBB world for everyone.

With the increasing popularity of smartphones and booming of mobile applications, people's life has been greatly enriched. However, unbalanced MBB network development is causing a digital divide in developing countries. It is a big challenge for people to enjoy a fully-connected world. The Huawei pioneering Lean GU900 solution can help operators promptly bridge the digital divide and build a ubiquitous MBB world for everyone.

Because of multiple factors, such as spectrum, investment, and terminals, UMTS remains the optimal choice for MBB coverage in emerging markets. The UMTS 900 MHz band provides better broad and deep coverage than the UMTS 2.1 GHz band. Moreover, it can be deployed at existing GSM sites, reducing hardware investment and deployment duration.

Nowadays the spectrum resource of 900 MHz becomes increasingly limited. According to a global survey, the 900MHz spectrum of more than 50% operators is less than 8MHz. The industry is focusing on how to build UMTS and GSM networks with limited 900 MHz spectrum resources. The Huawei Lean GU900 solution is introduced accordingly.

  • Lean GU900: Maximizing spectrum efficiency with flexible bandwidth configuration

With a flexible bandwidth configuration, the Huawei Lean GU900 solution supports not only the standard UMTS 5 MHz configuration, but also UMTS 4.2 MHz or 3.8 MHz configuration. Due to this characteristic, operators can quickly and efficiently build GU 900 MHz networks with wide and deep MBB coverage. To meet increasing network capacity requirements, the operators can also deploy U900 dual carrier with software-based capacity expansion.

  • Lean GU900: 2x GSM network capacity without new sites

To cope with the traffic pressure on GSM after 900MHz spectrum refarming, Lean GU900 solution can improve GSM network capacity and experience by maximizing spectrum efficiency, timeslot efficiency and minimizing network interference. Therefore, GSM network capacity can up to double without deploying new sites.

  • Lean GU900: Help global operators build ubiquitous MBB networks

With the Lean GU900 solution, Huawei and global operators are making efforts to help more people enjoy wonderful MBB services.

− In China, with Lean GU900 widely deployed in suburban and rural areas, both 3G users and data traffic have been significantly increased. 

− In the Middle East, the Lean GU900 solution helps operators in Egypt enhance not only the wide MBB coverage, but also deep coverage in urban areas, thereby efficiently improve network capacity and user experience.

− In Africa, with Lean GU900 deployed in Kenya, the indoor MBB coverage has been significantly optimized to achieve excellent voice and data experience.

By the third quarter of 2015, more than 150 U900 networks had been deployed all over the world, among which over 110 applied Huawei Lean GU900. With this solution, more than 200 million users enjoy the excellent MBB services. Huawei is dedicated to continuous technology evolution, and is now making efforts with global partners to bridge the digital divide and build seamless-coverage MBB networks for everyone.