gsm laos-thailand gsm signal wattay airport terminal
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Assessment of Thai GSM Signal at the Wattay International Airport
24 March 2010
Chanthadeth Athtanaphone
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Methodology• To check the presence of Thailand signal in the airport, we use 8 different roaming SIMs and
perform a manual search for GSM signal.Roaming SIM s :
1. O2, UK2. Orange, France
» 3. China mobile» 4. Viettel, Vietnam» 5. T-Mobile, USA» 6. SFR, France» 7. Vodafone, UK» 8. Optus, Australia
• Take the snapshots of the phone screen which shows the existing networks• Measure the receive level of Thai operators at the Wattay airport using TEMS mobiles• TEMS is a measurement tool developed by Ericsson/ASCOM to measure signal strength and other
information used between the mobile phone and the network .
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Location of the Wattay airport
Comments
- From the picture Thai border isrice field, there is less than 200 people, but in VTE border is morethan 8,000 people, mean thaioperators objectives to cover VTEbut not thai subscribers
- Thai operators should minimizethe coverage and signal strengthto not cover VTE area
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Thai operator BTSs
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Orange FranceO2-UK China Mobile
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T-Mobile USA FSR FranceViettel Vietnam
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Thai signal presence at Wattay airport
These are the operators from
Thailand that are present in Wattay
airport.
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DTAC signal presence in Laos Airport
Measured signal strength using TEMS
phone (in dBm)
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True signal presence in Laos Airport
Measured signal strength using TEMS
phone (in dBm)
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AIS signal presence in Laos Airport
Measured signal strength using TEMS
phone (in dBm)
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Conclusion
• Thai Operators have very high receive level at the Wattay Airport
• It is suggested to exhaust all means to remove their presence at the international airport of Laos
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