Telefónica announced that it has selected six partners in order to launch LTE trials in six countries. These six countries are: the United Kingdom, Germany and the Czech Republic in Europe (where Telefónica operates as O2), Spain (where it’s known as Movistar), Brazil (where it operates as Vivo) and Argentina (where it’s operates as Movistar) in Latin America.
The Telefónica has chosen so far Huawei, NEC, Nokia Siemens Network, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and ZTE and will start rolling out the equipment necessary for testing the technology during the coming months, to get an advance look at its behavior in the field.
Telefónica will be able to offer peak speeds of up to 340 Mbps in ideal conditions and increase its networks’ capacity to offer broadband mobile services. 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 video conference, 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.
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