Friday, March 7. 2008

Telcos Use GIS!

Computerworld Canada explains "How the telcos use mapping data" based on presentations from this week's Intelligent Enterprise Expedition (IEE) 2008 in Toronto.

Key quotes:

"What we need is pictures,” Canning said. “Maps allow us to really visualize our marketplace. And by overlaying customer data, it gives us the opportunity to understand more about our customers and where they live."

...Telus, the Vancouver-based company estimated it’s spent about $40 million to develop its GIS-based system – an expense that Gordon McElravy, Ontario manager at Telus Geomatics, said has been well worth the money.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 06:00 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

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Telcos also use GIS extensively in r/f planning and asset management - tying the different GIS all together is a challenge as it is for any utility

#1 Paul Crisp on 2008-03-10 06:12 (Reply)

Good point Paul.

Pitney Bowes MapInfo offers a standalone tool Vertical Mapper that works well in support of wireless planning for telcos. This functionality and other features are also OEM'd in other formal RF Prediction tools like Mentum's Planet application. Combining RF planning tools and market analyses functions on the same data format or platform has been very valuable for many small and large telcos.

#1.1 Alan Clark (Link) on 2008-03-11 10:09 (Reply)

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