and are controlled by an Radio Network Controller.However, this is changing with the emergence of High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), where some logic (e.g., retransmission) is handled in the Node B for lower response times.

Differences between a Node B and a GSM base station

Frequency use

The utilization of WCDMA technology allows cells belonging to the same or different Node Bs and even controlled by different RNC

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