Nordic telecommunications company TeliaSonera has announced the beginning of the operation of the world's first commercial network of the fourth generation standard, LTE. Initially, it intended to be in the first quarter of 2010, but then decided to move the launch in December 2009.
The zone has a small network – central parts of Stockholm and Oslo, where about 450 thousand people. Base stations for these cities set accordingly Ericsson and Huawei. In 2010, be included in the coverage area of three major cities of Norway and 25 municipalities in Sweden. Likely, will also be connected to Denmark. Total in 2010 for the deployment of LGE-networks TeliaSonera spend $ 70 million
Speed of data transmission in the network TeliaSonera, alleged the firm, ranging from 20 to 80 Mbps. However, it is not clear what will be the actual speed on a busy network at rush hour. The network involved a 20-MHz channels, which should be sufficient for stable operation for at least the lower threshold of the claimed range.
Samsung will provide USB-modems to work with a network supporting broadband connection at 2.6 GHz. In the second quarter of 2010 will be new modems to support multiple modes. LTE is not backward compatible with the standards of the second and third generations, so use this modem on such networks will not work.
Connection fee of about $ 84 per month with the included 30 GB of traffic. However, until July next year will act introductory rate – just $ 0.56 per month and unlimited traffic.

Via DigiTimes