The Environmental Engineering (EE) committee of ETSI has published its latest Technical Specification , to help operators improve the energy efficiency of their networks.

According to this weeks' ETSI Press release: "...TS 102 706, developed by ETSI 'EE' Technical Committee, standardizes the measurement method for energy efficiency for multiple mobile network technologies, such as GSM/EDGE, W-CDMA/HSPA, LTE and WiMAX networks."


Although only Wide Area Base Stations are covered in this version of the specification, other Radio Base Stations will be considered in a future versions.

The specification can be freely downloaded from the ETSI web site

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