Last month VivaCell-MTS launched 4G/LTE commercial test network in Armenia with a live demo conducted in Yerevan. During the event, bilateral 4G roaming agreement between VivaCell-MTS and MTS Uzbekistan was announced. VivaCell-MTS and MTS-Uzbekistan claims to be first in the world to have the LTE data roaming.

According to GSMA, within this collaboration, 3GPP standards and the GSMA’s specifications for LTE Roaming have been used. This Roaming is functional on 2.6 GHz frequency band LTE network of MTS Uzbekistan & Vivacell-MTS Armenia. During the test, Samsung GTB3710 & Huawei E398 LTE USB modems have been used.

VivaCell-MTS plans to provide its subscribers the opportunity to test the 4G network prior to its full-scale nationwide roll-out. The network theoretical capacity showcased via the speed test 150 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload. The end-to-end solution for 4G network roll-out in Yerevan was done with the support of Ericsson and Huawei.

Earlier this year, on November 10th, the PSRC of the Republic of Armenia satisfied the application of VivaCell-MTS for building mobile network through LTE technology and gave respective permission to use sections of radio frequencies in the range of 40 MHz, till November 4, 2019. According to the PSRC decision, VivaCell-MTS must have launched the LTE network as a commercial service before March 1, 2011.