Case Study: Regional Telecommunications Company achieves up to 40% antenna modification cost savings with NETSCOUT TrueCall

Lower Optimization Costs with Real-time Network Visualization

A regional telecommunications operator faced high, inefficient antenna-optimization costs — a minimum $1,000 per tower climb plus $150 per hour when multiple adjustments were needed — and lacked a fast way to verify changes in the field. Manual antenna tuning and reliance on third-party tower crews made optimization time-consuming, error-prone and expensive.

By deploying NETSCOUT’s TrueCall real-time network visualization and training, engineers can pinpoint issues, direct crews, and immediately verify adjustments. This reduced roughly two hours per adjustment (three adjustments per antenna on average), cutting about $750 in costs per site, lowering antenna modification costs by up to 40%, improving network performance, and achieving payback in under one year.