Written by: Pierre Zune

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Ericsson is the first company to take WCDMA technology out of the laboratory and test it in a real environment. At the end of 1999, Ericsson had seventeen WCDMA test systems in operation in Asia, Europe and North America. The RBS 3000 product line is a comprehensive family of macro, mini and micro radio base stations (RBS) that were designed using input from second-generation mobile systems. In this article, the author gives an in-depth description of Ericsson’s family of RBS 3000 products.

[First published in Ericsson Review no. 03, 2000]