7 March 2008
A number of mobile telephone company officials have stated that they want to minimise the number of base stations or masts they use in order to cut down costs.
Charges for connectivity will have to be lowered, they claimed, as use is set to grow faster than revenues at present, reports ZDNet.co.uk.
One such official was the Chief Executive at T-Mobile International Hamid Akhavan who suggested that the profitability of the mobile data markets is decreasing all the time because applications firms will see the greatest benefit from better connectivity.
Furthermore, the Chief Technology Officer at Vodafone Germany Hartmut Kremling noted that backhaul is another concern.
"We need a technology based on existing density. Backhaul for [mobile base stations] is already very challenging - increasing the number of sites will [exacerbate] this dramatically," he contended.
Environmental concerns are also paramount, Mr Kremling said, because the radio network uses a great deal of energy.
In related news, O2 has abandoned plans to construct a mast near a school in Surrey.
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