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Elcell to double investment in network expansion

09 January 2009 09:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva â€“ APA-Economics. Azerbaijanâ€™s mobile broadband wireless internet provider Datacell LLC (ElcellTM) invested $3 million in the development of wireless internet network in the country during 2008.
The company said it plans to invest more than $7 million in the development and expansion of the wireless network in provinces in 2009.
At present the companyâ€™s coverage area includes Baku, Khirdalan, Sumgait, Merdekan and Meshtaga.
As part of its measures to improve service quality and ensure high-speed wireless Internet access for its rapidly growing number of subscribers, Elcell has installed several new base stations of varying capacities in central Baku with a total throughput capacity of more than 400 Mbps.
The new telecommunication equipment is primarily installed where the consumption of mobile Internet is steadily increasing. These are mainly thoroughfares and many new apartment buildings of the capital, for residents of which wireless is often the best way of accessing the Internet. All the base stations are linked to a single fiber optic network.
Elcell services are based on the latest wireless data communication technology HC-SDMA iBurst (High Capacity Spatial Division Multiple Access, IEEE 802.20).
The HC-SDMA provides wide-area broadband wireless data-connectivity for fixed, portable and mobile computing devices and appliances. The protocol is designed to be implemented with smart antenna array techniques to substantially improve the radio frequency (RF) coverage, capacity and performance for the system.
iBurst is commercially available in 14 countries and presently is the most advanced technology for Mobile Broadband Data Transmission.