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Telenor: There’s nothing to do in Norway, so we’re going to rebuild our wireless network

Categories: Huawei, Infrastructure
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 4:39 AM

Norway, home of browser vendor Opera, and delicious lutefisk, has a population of less than 5 million people and is roughly the size of the state of New Mexico. I’m sharing these facts with you to give some context to the next statement: Telenor, the number one operator in Norway, is going to rebuild their network from scratch. With Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei building the wireless side, and Starnet, who was recently acquired by Cisco, responsible for the back-end, Telenor plans to rebuild their network over the next few years. Each new tower will support 2G, 3G and 4G, and all legacy circuit switched equipment will be thrown out and replaced in order to make their network 100% IP-based.

“This is the biggest upgrade of the mobile network in Norway we have ever carried out. It will create a solid and flexible base for further developing the services offered by the Telenor mobile network and the quality of those services. Our aim is to provide customers with better, more innovative services across the country. This means better in terms of capacity, speed and stability.” — Ragnar Kårhus, Head of Telenor Norway

In the midst of an economy that is no longer falling like a rock, but will likely be flat for years to come, Telenor has some pretty damn big balls. I blame it on the high protein diet of mainly seafood.

[Via: Cellular News]

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Andy

    Blame it on oil from the seabed, Norwegians have it a lot…

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Telenor is the 7th largest operator in the world. There are a lot better ways to make money than oil.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenor

  • atmozphere

    I was gonna say the same thing Andy said, but Stefan’s got a real good point there.