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T-Mobile Netherlands improves smartphone user experience

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 30 January, 2011

Nokia Siemens Networks reduces signaling 30 percent with paging channel (Cell_PCH)

T-Mobile Netherlands has successfully improved the accessibility and quality of its network by significantly reducing its peak signaling traffic load to a more manageable level. The operator activated the paging channel feature within its network, making room for additional growth in voice and data traffic.

Cell_PCH is a Nokia Siemens Networks enabled feature in 3G networks that can significantly reduce signaling traffic while ensuring a simultaneous increase in battery life.

‘Always-on’ mobile broadband applications that run on smartphones make many short connections to the network as they check for latest updates to email or social network sites. If not handled appropriately, this behavior consumes device battery power significantly and generates large amounts of signaling traffic that can clog up networks. The growing popularity of smartphones means operators such as T-Mobile need to cope with increasingly high levels of signaling traffic while improving battery life for smartphone users.

“The number of smartphones on our network is very high. More than 50 percent of all data traffic in the Netherlands is processed by the T-Mobile network. Management of signaling traffic is imperative in the rapidly evolving mobile broadband landscape,” said Jan Kuijpers, technology director, T-Mobile Netherlands. “In the long run, excessive signaling can lead to network congestion and can have a negative impact on the quality of voice calls for all our subscribers. Nokia Siemens Networks’ Cell_PCH feature provides the ideal solution to avoid these negative impacts. This feature has been implemented across the Deutsche Telekom Group.”

“Enabling the Cell_PCH functionality within T-Mobile’s network has delivered immediate and perceptible benefits,” added Charles Olierook, customer team head for T-Mobile at Nokia Siemens Networks. “Going forward, we will continue to work with T-Mobile to ensure continuous high level of service quality to its subscribers.”

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