Ericsson has shipped 1 million GSM base Stations

Ericsson has shipped its millionth GSM base station [receiver/transmitter that serves as the hub of the local wireless network. It typically consists of a low-power transmitter and wireless router.] the company has announced. The millionth unit was delivered to the mobile operator MTN Nigeria. Ericsson has shipped its millionth GSM base station, the company has announced. The millionth unit was delivered to the mobile operator MTN Nigeria. Base Stations. [a base station is a network, and may also be the gateway between a wired network and the wireless network. The vendor delivered its first base station in 1991 to Mannesmann in Germany, and it took 12 years to ship its first half million, with the second half million taking only three years.
The worldwide GSM network now connects 2.3 billion users and the strong growth is expected to continue, said Ericsson.

The number of GSM subscribers around the world is set to increase by 40 million a month during 2007, according to the GSM Association.

More than 10 million are currently being added every month across India and China. In India alone, Ericsson is currently installing a new GSM base station every 15 minutes. Kurt Jofs, executive VP and head of the networks business unit at Ericsson, said: "After 16 years, the pace of GSM deployments shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, we expect 2007 to be the fifth consecutive record year for deliveries."

Meanwhile president and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg said at a conference in Stockholm today that he expects traffic in fixed as well as mobile networks to grow tenfold by 2012. "With high-speed broadband, we will see multimedia to start a new era in telecom," he added.

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