Telenor Norway has upgraded its mobile network that includes more than 9,000 base stations in a total of 6,379 different sites throughout Norway, including Svalbard and oil installations in the North Sea. The new network means that Telenor acquires improved data traffic capacity, thus enabling us to offer customers higher speeds. The new equipment will be used to deploy the next generation mobile network (4G/LTE), starting up in 2012.

Operator has expanded the network to ensure that customers throughout the country can get superb coverage and the capacity required to make use of all the new services to come, even in the future. There is nowhere in the world where communication services create a better experience than in Norway, said Berit Svendsen, CEO of Telenor Norway.

According to company, 50 percent of the base stations are ready for 14.4 Mb/S and 21 Mb/s and the new equipment reduces Telenor's energy consumption by around 15 GWh per annum, which can be compared to the consumption of 800 homes. Approximately 1,250 tons of equipment was removed. This has either been recycled or destroyed.