i3 creates mobile operator strategy role
May 10, 2011
Fibre networks technology specialist, i3, has appointed Mike Parker to the role of Director of Mobile Operator Strategy.
Mike has been with i3 for a year and moves to the newly-created position from his role as Group Technical Innovations Director. Prior to joining i3, he was Technical Director of the UK operating company of Siae Microelettronica, one of the leading microwave radio manufacturers and suppliers to the global mobile telephone industry.
i3 has created the Mobile Operator Strategy role to support the increasing requirement from mobile operators for Fibre to the Mast (FTTM) technology to manage the data requirements of the current 3G and forthcoming 4G LTE/WiMAX networks.
Based at the company’s Mochdre offices in North Wales, United Kingdom, Mike has a global remit to apply i3’s technology to the mobile arena.
i3 is best known for its Fibre to the Home (FTTH) technology that delivers high speed internet connections through existing conduits such as sewers, drains and clean water pipes. The suite of technologies, which falls under the company’s Hydrospeed brand, reduces installation costs by as much as 70 per cent by threading fibre optic cable through existing conduits or using ‘micro trenching’ which minimises installation time, cost and disruption.
Mike Parker says: “By applying our technology to the mobile phone sector, we can take fibre to masts quickly and cost-effectively, enabling mobile operators to use fibre for data backhaul to cell sites.
“Our Hydrospeed technology will provide mobile operators with a wholly-owned infrastructure with up to 90 per cent reduction in fibre deployment timescales and up to 70 per cent reduction in deployment costs.
“If it is deployed as wholly owned, operators also get a dark fibre network which has quite literally unlimited data capacity. It’s as future-proof as you can get.”
The technology is expected to be welcomed by mobile operators who are facing the ‘double whammy’ of flat-lining ARPUs and spiralling backhaul costs whilst being under pressure to improve network performance.
Mike Parker can be contacted at i3 on 01492 541111 or visit www.i3-group.co.uk.
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