Network Planning/Optimization

Network Planning and Optimization of a radio network is of paramount importance for delivering a competitive quality of experience by an operator to its subscribers.

Nowadays, mobile operators are challenged to maintain or improve their network quality in light of its complexities with multiple layers of technologies 2G, 3G, LTE, different vendors, frequency holdings and ever-increasing mobile data traffic.

Our expertise cemented our understanding that a badly-planned radio network will create significant complexities in the future for optimizing the radio network. So, for this reason we believe network planning/design should be planned with diligence, especially taking into the consideration 5G rollouts in the future. Improperly planned networks incur 32% extra capex and opex than well-designed ones.

Traditional ways of optimizing networks are network-centric and this does not reflect the experience of the user. Thus it cannot be applied to current data-centric networks. More customer experience based approaches should be employed in order to optimize the quality and resources of a radio network.

Our approach for optimizing networks is to utilize valuable information from Measurement Reports (MR’s) from each individual subscriber to enable us to build up an overall understanding of quality and ensure the optimization of actions as well as in deciding in weak planning spots.