“Carrier neutral’ mobile network operator Dense Air has selected Kordia to provide its Network operations centre and logistics and field engineering support in New Zealand.
Dense Air uses its own licenced spectrum and cell sites to provide cellular network coverage to other operators where there is congestion of poor coverage. It says its services complement mobile network operators and enable private networks, critical communications and IoT connectivity.
Dense Air says its small cells economically provides additional network capacity and eliminates both indoor and outdoor coverage ‘not’ spots, typically on a neutral host basis. Its 4G radio infrastructure operates in 70MHz of 2.6GHz spectrum and, says the company, soon also 5G.
Spark is Dense Air customer
In September 2019 it announced an agreement with NZ telco Spark and in June 2020 announced that the first call had been placed on its network infrastructure provided for Spark. Dense Air also holds spectrum in Australia but has yet to announce any operator partnerships.
Dense Air says it has integrated its production environment with Kordia’s 24x7x365 network operations centre in Wellington and has contracted for the implementation of monitoring, incident management, performance reporting and automated KPI dashboards into Kordia’s existing systems and processes.
“In addition, Kordia has logistics and material handling capability integrated with its engineering field force that will support the installation and commissioning of Dense Air small cell,” the company said.
