



Typical 30m tower in the forests of Austria |
Another example of BTS equipment located on the average house, despite RF radiation
considerations in other countries. It's big money for some of the poor farmers
who take full advantage of the easy money available from the cellular operators
who are desperate to roll out their networks. |
Two BTS Integrator colleagues....Geert Claas (from Belguim) and Ian Greenall (from
North Wales) standing next to a Nokia DE34 Outdoor base station somewhere in
the snowy mountains of Austria. |
The Connect "ONE" company of Austria hade a policy of using existing buildings &
structures. This BTS and antennas on a newly constructed house, still unfinished. |
1996: Orange PCS, Mobile Sites Group. This Orange department was responsible for the installation
of temporary bast stations to enhance signal coverage or give extra trafiic capability
in emergency situations where high voice/data traffic may be too much
for the existing Orange infrastructure. This equipment was Nokia DE34 and used
standby generators and winch up radio masts. 1997: Cellnet. Direct for Nokia, Huntingdon. Integration of DE34 BTS equipment and upgrading the older Nokia DE21 base stations. 1998: Connect/ONE. Direct for Nokia, Austria. New 1800 Mhz mobile phone network. This was on BTS integration of Nokia DE34 equipment and cofiguration of Nokia Dynahopper microwave equipment. Drive testing/optimisation was also undertaken on this network. |
Jerry Lefever - GSM projects |