Telefónica Group to Conduct LTE Technology Trials in Six Countries
Based on document of list commitments (March 2009) from mobile operator there will be 120 variety of commitments levels intentions to trial, deploy, migrate of LTE around the world.
Telefonica is a Spanish telecommunication company which operates globally, it is one of the largest fixed-line and mobile telecommunications companies in the world.
Present in 25 countries and an average of 257,000 professionals. More than 27.5 billion euros and more than 260 million customer accesses (until June 2009).The 3rd in terms of number of clients (with the acquisition of O2, Movistar and Manx Telecom) only behind China Mobile and Vodafone, and in the top five in market value. They were behind China Mobile, AT&T, and Vodafone in November 2007.
Recently Telefónica has reached an agreement with six LTE technology providers to launch the test projects in six different countries with the view to rolling out 4G networks in the different regions where the Company operates. This project, coordinated globally and underpinned by the advantages afforded from the Company’s geographic scale, forms part of the process for selecting technology partners in LTE networks, the rollout of which Telefónica aims to be prepared as far in advance as possible, in line with its status as the international leader in innovation.
The countries selected for testing are Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Czech Republic in Europe, and Brazil and Argentina in Latin America.
The most recent public demonstration of LTE technology by Telefónica took place in April in Madrid. It consisted of the first VoIP call, in a videocall using an LTE mini-network installed by Ericsson, in a videoconference, and successive downloads of data and images at transfer speeds in excess of 140 Mbps, about 10 times faster than current 3G networks using HSPA technology.
Here are the level commitments of Telefónica companies from March 2009’s LTE list :
- Q4 2011 in UK by O2 UK network
- Q4 2011 in Germany by O2 German network
- Q4 2012 in Brazil by Terra network
- Q4 2012 in Argentina by Movistar and Terra network
There were no information in the list of March 2009, presumably in Spain will provided by Movistar network and in Czech will provided by O2 Czech Republic.
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