Arieso claims LBS data can improve 3G coverage

ARIESO's DR Konstantinos Stavropoulos claims a growing number of people are using their mobile phone instead of the fixed at home by signing up for 3G. The catch is that coverage is sometimes poor.

Stavropoulos claims that a fellow London-based Greek found that one in three 3G calls was dropping out. Naturally, Arieso has a solution for the problem – a package called Ariesogeo.

The company claims that the software can geo-locate tens of millions of calls per minute. It says that this will then build a "true-to-life picture of network performance", whether they are indoors or outdoors, or in business or residential areas.

The software works with both the Cdma2000 (as used in the States) and W-CDMA variants of 3G. The main advantage to Ariesogeo is that it doesn't require GPS-enabled handsets, it works from information supplied by the 3G network.

Arieso also maintains its product can enable operators to take action even before a problem is reported.

However, the INQ isn't so convinced that alternatives to GPS including CellID work as accurately as vendors claim.

Testing such a service (not AriesoGeo, though) the other day, the system claimed the INQ was in Kennington, two miles way, when the true location was actually a bar in London's Waterloo station.

Not particularly accurate or helpful, was it? µ