 
Alcatel's Indoor Coverage Program delivers a full suite of professional services, which cover the complete implementation of indoor solutions. With these solutions, mobile operators are positioned to capture revenue where market potential is highest.
The indoor coverage market is large. Operator experience in both 2G and 3G indicates that more than 70 percent of mobile usage is initiated indoors. Also driving this market are richer content and communications services being introduced by 3G. These will require higher capacity and better quality of service. As a result, outdoor coverage will not be sufficient to meet in-building coverage and quality of service expectations. This means that, for 3G operators, indoor coverage will free capacity from outdoor layer, provide best usage of new data services and thus improving overall Quality of Service. Indoor is a crucial differentiator, as quality of service must be enhanced wherever the users are.
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Who can benefit from this service?
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MSPs investing in 3G
MSPs willing to enter the corporate market
MSPs willing to capture voice and data traffic from fixed networks (fixed to mobile substitution)
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Alcatel's Indoor Coverage Program is a full turnkey solution that takes into account all related aspects of access technology i.e. cell breathing effect and orthogonality for 3G, cell interference and so on, as well as providing optimized indoor coverage in a multi-vendor environment. The program includes dedicated solutions designed to address the high-revenue corporate segment, in addition to other environments, such as underground parking garages, hot spots, tunnels and small buildings.
Service Benefits
Enhanced coverage and optimized quality of service to boost revenue
With increased capacity and optimized network performance in indoor areas, operators can deliver richer content and communications services with high quality of service guarantees. This positions them to better boost revenue. Optimized indoor coverage also reduces the outdoor coverage load, improving both indoor and outdoor quality of service.
Capital investment reduction (up to 30%)
Optimized indoor coverage lets operators accept either more calls and capacity with the existing coverage, or expand coverage with the same capacity. In either case, capital expenditure on outdoor sites and equipment can be reduced by as much as 30 percent.
Worldwide best practices covering indoor areas and satisfying 3G users
Alcatel's expertise in indoor coverage is built on a partnership with NTT DoCoMO Engineering Inc., and has already powered 3G indoor networks in more than 1,600 buildings in Japan. |
