Publication

Complexity versus cost

Article by Alan Carr published in 3GSM World Focus 2004

Bulky, complex, but impossible to do without, base stations are of vital importance to networks—and therefore the entire mobile communications industry.

Base station manufacturers must work with highly demanding applications of real-time electronics and software, and yet, at the same time, they are under pressure to keep prices down.

How can these apparently contradictory challenges both be met?