Indonesia's largest mobile operator ,Telkomsel recently announced Indonesia’s first FDD Massive MIMO demonstration in collaboration with Huawei.
The demonstration achieved 5 times capacity of traditional FDD LTE 2x2 MIMO. As Massive MIMO is one of the key technologies of 5G, this successful demonstration realizes 5G-like experience in 4.5G network, and also marks 4.5G evolution, the beginning of 5G journey for Telkomsel 2017.
Telkomsel started building LTE network since the end of 2014. The number of LTE users have now reached more than 19 million. Telkomsel is consistently on top in terms of user experience as measured by active users for 12 consecutive months in 2016.
With a large number of active LTE users, Indonesia users’ data demand grows quickly. The heavy usage will inevitably lead to network congestion in high traffic areas. With scarce spectrum availability and challenging site acquisitions, solutions addressing capacity and efficiency of spectrum utilization is the most valuable for Telkomsel to address network congestions. Telkomsel and Huawei set up a joint innovation center, for the research of large-capacity and evolution solution to 5G. Massive MIMO and other new technologies are proposed to enhance network capacity.
Sukardi silalahi, Network Director of Telkomsel
Multi-antenna technology fully meets our requirements for improving customer experience. Massive MIMO can increase the capacity without adding sites and spectrum, thus reducing the cost per bit. I am very satisfied with the demonstration results today.
Sun Xiwei, Deputy CEO, PT Huawei Tech Investment
Today’s result is a great breakthrough and will bring many benefits for Indonesian mobile data users. As a leading ICT solutions provider, Huawei have always invested heavily in R&D of cutting edge technologies that enriches communications and people’s lives.
