Uzbekistan mobile operator UCell has deployed LTE network using ZTE’s equipments. The network is able to achieve a downloading peak rate of up to 100 Mbps, announced ZTE. 

During the test in the nation's capital Tashkent, ZTE and UCell demonstrated high-speed Internet access, streaming video, file uploads and downloads, Internet browsing and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services by using ZTE's LTE equipment.

UCell Chief Executive Oguz Memiguven said, "We are proud that Uzbekistan has become one of the few countries in the world utilizing the 4G network. As a part of TeliaSonera, a company with over a hundred years of experience in telecommunications, we are committed to delivering state-of-the art technologies and an excellent wireless data experience to our customers."

UCell,  a subsidiary of TeliaSonera, received the license for 4G LTE mobile technology in Q2 2010. UCell became the second largest mobile operator in Uzbekistan, with 5,074,000 subscriptions and a market share of approximately 31 percent as of 2009.