Power Challenges

Energy costs continue to rise and power costs represent about 30% of the total network operating cost. As wireless operators continue to build network capacity and with challenges in generating additional revenues, the only option is to reduce network operating costs. Reducing power operating costs is critical.

‘Orange Group wish to reduce energy costs by 15% by 2015, while increasing network capacity’ Michel Orange Group.

There has been tremendous investment in mobile radio technology from analogue to GSM, 3G and now LTE (or 4G). However, the power infrastructure has not evolved significantly in twenty years. Although the radio network has a sophisticated network management system, in many cases the power system has none –so when a site goes down, the only options is to send an engineer to site