Sony, Nokia and Huawei have each announced new handsets at CES in Las Vegas, as competition in the smartphone market hots up.
Telstra has been trialing LTE from May 2010, comprizing not only urban, but also rural evaluations and extensive laboratory trials. At MWC 2011, Barcelona, Telstra announced plans to upgrade its Next G™ network with LTE technology in the central business districts of all Australian capital cities and selected regional centers by end of 2011. The upgrade will use Telstra‟s existing 1800 MHz spectrum to deliver LTE to areas where traffic demand is most concentrated.
T-Mobile’s Hungarian subsidiary Magyar Telekom has become the first operator to offer a 4G-LTE mobile broadband service in the country. The service was launched across ten districts of Budapest after the operator carried out a three-month extended network testing phase, involving over a hundred personal and business users.
Zain Bahrain confirmed in August 2009 plans to deploy LTE, and showcased the region‟s first LTE call in March 2010, with a download speed of 70 Mbps. Regulator TRA is consulting on allocation of 2.6 GHz spectrum for LTE commercial deployments.
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Adrian Scrase, Vice President, International Partnership Projects, 3GPP, says that although LTE came to market later than anticipated, it has grown more rapidly than expected. And while there are now 40 bands in which LTE is specificed, there is a “disaster looming” as device radios will not contain all those bands.
Tommy Ljunggren, VP mobility services, TeliaSonera, updates telecoms.com on the deployment of its LTE network and rollout into the more rural areas. “We’re rolling out basestations like crazy,” he says.
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