Service revenue growth challenges faced by mobile operators in emerging markets differ significantly from those faced by operators in developed regions. While in emerging markets revenue growth comes from customer growth, developed market revenue growth comes from increased usage. In both cases operators are looking for infrastructure that will be able to scale without a high relative increase in OPEX and CAPEX.
Driven by the goal of increased revenues, many mobile operators are looking to leverage their networks to offer additional non-mobile services; either for the business community, for other carriers or even directly to residential users.
Mobile operators therefore need a solution that is flexible and scalable in size and services to accommodate both the capacity growth and the increased diversity of the used protocols and in the provided services.
ECI Telecom offers a wide variety of transmission solutions for the wireless operator both for its backhaul needs as well as for the network core. ECI can also offer WiMax infrastructure solutions.
On top of linking associated costs with the scaling of services, ECI's solutions help mobile operators in the following ways:
- Ensuring the existing infrastructure investment in the network is leveraged to the maximum
- Building a shared network infrastructure to support 2G/2.5G/3G Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), together with 3G IP and WiMax
- Providing additional, non-mobile services over the same infrastructure
- Offering easy End to End management