Telecom network operator Telefonica has improved the mobile experience at Valencia’s Mestalla stadium.
In order to improve customer experience, Telefonica has made investment in Nokia’s Centralized RAN technology to increase capacity and improve uplink throughput. Telefonica has also deployed small cells technologies including Nokia Flexi Zone Small Cells, Flexi Lite Base Stations in stadium common areas.
Nokia says Telefonica is the first telecom network operator in Spain to deploy Nokia Centralized RAN to meet the mobile demands of football fans. Nokia Centralized RAN has improved the mobile broadband user experience in more than one million stadium seats across the world — in the past year.
Joaquin Mata, network technology and operations director at Telefonica Spain, said: “Telefonica remains committed to building a cutting-edge network infrastructure in Spain, using innovative solutions that offer outstanding service quality in spite of exceptional circumstances.”
The Nokia Centralized RAN solution will help Telefonica ease any build-up of network congestion by combining multiple base stations that co-operate with one another to turn harmful interference into useful traffic.
The technology increases the average uplink capacity in existing LTE networks so that uploading can be done much faster. It also improves download speeds and extends battery life as devices no longer need to transmit at high power to cut through interference.
