CSL has announced the launch of a commercial trial of LTE, the first in Hong Kong and the first in the region outside Japan. Executives yesterday also announced plans to refarm its 900 MHz spectrum for 3G, and called on OEMs to help them develop devices for both. Both the LTE trial and the UMTS900 rollout will be backed by Chinese vendor ZTE.
CSL’s UMTS900 rollout – which not only boosts 3G data capacity, but also improves indoor coverage – will be complete by early 2010, with 5 MHz allocated to 3G and the rest for 2G GSM traffic. CSL chief executive Tarek Robbiati added that while few handsets support UMTS900, with only a handful of such launches in Europe and Australia, CSL will work with device makers to get phones in the pipeline.
source: telecomasia.net
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