Vodafone Australia completes successful implementation of world leading network planning and optimisation tools
For immediate release:
Sydney, 29 July 2008
TeleResources, Australia’s leading independent RF engineering consulting firm has completed a major contract with Vodafone Australia for the provisioning of their Planning and Optimisation Tools. The operator selected Atoll and Radioplan as the corporate-wide platform for designing and optimising both its 2G and 3G networks. The project enables Vodafone to design networks using the latest generation wireless technology providing enhanced services to its customers. Vodafone has joined many other carriers around the globe in using Atoll and Radioplan as its planning and optimisation tool.
“We’re delighted to have been able to help Vodafone in this important project”, said Maurie Dobbin, Managing Director of TeleResources. “Atoll is already the leading radio planning tool in the world and now it has also achieved a majority share in the Australian and New Zealand markets.”
TeleResources is the distributor of Atoll and Radioplan in Australia and New Zealand with clients including Telstra, Vodafone New Zealand and Telecom New Zealand.
Atoll is the world’s leading RF planning tool with over 130+ clients in over 65 countries with the software supporting all RF technologies including the fast moving WiMax standard. Using an open platform architecture Atoll allows 3rd Party developers to provide complementary solutions to Atoll. One such solution is the Actix optimisation tool Radioplan.
Vodafone’s Manager for OSS Strategy and Planning, Michel Azzi commented “Atoll provided Vodafone with a seamless planning and optimisation tool across all of our Radio Access networks: 2G, 3G, 3G MORAN with Optus, 900 UMTS and for certain will handle any of our future radio technologies... flexible to integrate to other OSS tools and easy to use”.
Within the broad scope of the project TeleResources also provisioned engineering services including the integration of high resolution Geo Data and the migration of existing 2G and 3G RF network planning data into Atoll.
About Vodafone
Vodafone Australia operates a GSM digital mobile network that covers 93 per cent of the Australian population. In March 2001, the company bid $253.5 million to secure a national license of 2 GHz spectrum for the delivery of third generation (3G) mobile telephony services. More than 4 million customers are connected to Vodafone with the company recently reporting customer connection and service revenue increases of more than 20 per cent year-on-year in the Australian business market.
About Forsk
As the market leader in the RF planning software market, Forsk’s strategy is to deliver, through Atoll, a comprehensive RF planning and optimisation software solution that supports all current and future major wireless technologies. Atoll used by major operators and vendors such as AT&T, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Motorola, and Nortel Networks.
About TeleResources
Established in 1981, TeleResources is Australia’s leading independent RF engineering consulting firm with over twenty years of experience in serving local and international markets. TeleResources supplies both business advice and software solutions to its operator clients covering the design, test and optimisation of 2G and 3G networks. Its mission is to deliver sustainable advantage for its clients through the use of innovative analytical methodologies coupled with sound engineering practices. For more information about Atoll visit the company's website at www.teleres.com.au
Contact:
Shaun Dobbin
Marketing Manager
TeleResources
(02) 9975.2230
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