T-Mobile together with Samsung Austria can now demonstrate the first market-ready LTE stick, which is the same size as the current mobile Internet sticks, in a live network," says DI Robert Chvátal, Chairman of the Management Board at T-Mobile Austria.

One year ago, T-Mobile Austria and Huawei presented the first LTE tests in a specially configured test network in Austria. The speed and potential of LTE were demonstrated as part of a showcase in the T-Mobile Shop on Vienna's Rennweg thoroughfare: the usability of key applications with high bandwidth and latency requirements - such as file downloads, video streaming, web browsing and video telephony - was demonstrated under real network conditions. Speeds of over 130 Mbit/s were reached via an air interface for the very first time, while four modems were simultaneously registered with one cell. 

"Our vision is mobile broadband coverage for everyone, and our LTE-related commitment is a key prerequisite for realizing it", says Chvátal. "We are pioneers of this technical innovation in Austria, which in turn enables us to give customers a state-of-the-art mobile broadband experience."

Alongside extensive laboratory tests at its sister company in Bonn, T-Mobile has been operating a specially installed live network for LTE tests for over a year. The network runs on the 2.6 GHz frequency band and was the largest test network in Europe at the time it was established. 

"As a pioneer in LTE, T-Mobile has gained crucial experience with the next generation of mobile communications technology from the tests in Vienna and Innsbruck", says Dr. Rüdiger Köster, Managing Director of Technology at T-Mobile Austria. "With our test network, we have gleaned evidence based on first-hand customer experience while putting the technology through its paces. In particular, we focused on aspects such as quality, stability and reliability in different environments, such as in the city center or the road network in and around Innsbruck."

T-Mobile Austria has installed a trial Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in its Vienna Rennweg store, to showcase the technology. T-Mobile contracted Huawei as technical partner and equipment supplier for the project.