TeliaSonera Launching 4G Modems – we don’t see it
TeliaSonera Launching 4G Modems – we don’t see it
22nd October , 2009
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Europe : Samsung say they will deliver 4G modems to TeliaSonera in 2010, to be sold in Norway and Sweden. The new 4G modems offer the opportunity to provide voice and data speeds up to ten that currently experienced.
Samsung are branding these modems as 4G ( see photo above ), but we at 3G.co.uk don’t see how this is possible as true 4G wireless is known as “IMT-Advanced” and even the specification for “IMT-Advanced” wont be ratified by the ITU until late 2010.
On further investigation Samsung say the 4G modems are USB dongles offering mobile broadband, so we think they must be 3G LTE. Having said we don’t see these as 4G modems, TeliaSonera say they are committed to launching the first 4G network in the world. Samsung will deliver mobile broadband modems for TeliaSonera’s commercial launch of 4G in Stockholm and Oslo in 2010.
TeliaSonera and Samsung have teamed up to meet customers’ continuously increasing demands for high speed mobile broadband services and together they will acquire early market understanding from end users’ ways of using 4G.
We are very pleased to work together with TeliaSonera. This is an historic step forward for today’s telecommunication industry. With TeliaSonera’s initiation of a 4G service we expect more consumers to enjoy advanced mobile broadband services much earlier than expected,” said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics.
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