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telenor speeds
up network
deployment
Telenor norway builT several hundred new
3g siTes in 2012. by The end of 2012 90 per CenT
of The populaTion had 3g Coverage. in The
Course of 2013 our 3g neTwork will Cover
The homes of 93 per CenT of mobile CusTomers
and our ConTinued neTwork deploymenT will
evenTually provide Coverage for as many as
97 per CenT of The populaTion.
We used to use our mobile phones mainly
for phone calls and text messages. Now
smartphones have arrived and are here to stay.
Smartphones are small computers that can
be used just as well for surfing the web, photo
sharing and watching movies. Data usage by
mobile phones grew by over 100 per cent last
year. This development has motivated Telenor
to expand our mobile coverage in areas that
currently do not have 3G coverage. At the same
time we are also strengthening capacity in
places that already have coverage in order to
provide customers on the move or indoors with
even better quality coverage.
By the end of 2012 Telenor Norway had
about 4,000 3G stations and we will set up
around 1,200 new stations by the end of 2014.
However, we are not only building more 3G
stations, we are also building high-speed
networks for the mobile stations to ensure good
capacity and quality for our customers.
SIM = Subscriber Identity Module
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30 million MB
per day
over 100%
Mbit/s
Hz
In 2011 the corresponding
figure was 65%
of mobile phones in
Telenors network were
smartphones
At the end of 2012
Data usage
by mobile phones grew by
in 2012
Telenor's mobile customers
use around 30 million
megabytes in the course
of a single day.
This corresponds to
30-35 million front pages
of Norway's most read
newspaper, Verdens Gang.
Broadband speed is measured in
megabits per second (Mbit/s)
A megabit (abbreviated as Mb or Mbit)
is a unit for measuring the amount of
information or data flow. One megabit
equals 1,000,000 bits or 1,000 kilobits.
When comparing broadband speed
we talk about how much data can be
transmitted in one second.
This value is expressed in Mbit/s.
The higher the value for Mbit/s
the faster the broadband.
Frequency is measured in Hertz
Hertz (abbreviated Hz) is the unit of
frequency or cycles/events per second.
One hertz simply means "one cycle/event
per second". One megahertz (MHz) is
"one cycle/event per microsecond", 900
MHz is "900 hundred cycles/events per
microsecond" and so on.
Of all the mobile phones sold on
the Norwegian market in 2012
86%
were
smart phones