Nextivity, a developer of in-building coverage technology, has announced that T-Mobile Netherlands will pilot the company's smart repeater devices as a potential technology to boost data rates in T-Mobile retail outlets throughout The Netherlands.
T-Mobile selected Nextivity to pilot smart repeater technology in retail stores throughout the country. T-Mobile aims to provide a consistency of experience for their customers — even in shops located in buildings with high attenuation losses. This holiday season, consumers can expect to experience real-world demos of the latest mobile applications on new T-Mobile handsets including the Apple iPhone 3G, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, Nokia N96, and the Samsung Omnia.
"Most wireless subscribers know firsthand that brick, glass and other architectural elements can degrade the quality of their voice calls and offer less-than-peak data speeds when they are at home or at work," said Nextivity CEO Werner Sievers. "Our smart repeater technology is designed to overcome the most demanding indoor coverage challenges and increase the effective RF capacity of each base station."
The Nextivity solution works in harmony with a mobile operator's network to maximize the data rates and voice quality experienced by users while indoors. With advanced filtering, equalization and echo cancellation techniques, Nextivity's smart repeater delivers unprecedented in-building data rates and pervasive 3G connectivity. Nextivity smart repeaters dynamically sense and react to the wireless environments found in homes and businesses and can increase the available in-building bandwidth.
Designed with smart antenna technology and an intelligent onboard processor, Nextivity's smart repeaters continually seek out the best available signal and automatically adjust to maximize the signal gain to the user.