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A1 Telekom Austria Launches LTE in Austria
Posted on 27. Oct, 2010 by Pankaj
in News, Telekom Austria, LTE
A1 Telekom Austria's LTE network is operational now in the capital Vienna, Austria. Earlier in June this year Telekom Austria had conducted a live LTE demonstration on the A1 network.
According to company statement A1 Telekom Austria is using 2.6 GHz frequency band for LTE lauch and has 49 base stations in Vienna and three stations in St. Pölten. More transmission sites in other urban centers are being planned.
Details regarding LTE vendors for this launch are not available, however Radio equipments for the pilot project came from the Huawei and Starent / Cisco provided Evolved Packet Core.