Japan's second-largest operator KDDI revealed further plans for its launch of LTE networks, announcing Motorola (Motorola's first public order for LTE equipment) and NEC as suppliers of radio access (base station) kit and declaring commercial availability by December 2012. Trials are scheduled to begin in mid 2010. The network will be deployed in both 1.5GHz and 800MHz spectrum bands, with 96.5 percent of the country covered by the end of 2014. The operator also plans to launch LTE-equipped mobile phones in time for commercial launch. According to a Reuters report, KDDI will spend roughly JPY500 billion (US$5.3 billion) on its LTE technology.
In December the operator announced it had chosen Hitachi and Nortel as LTE vendors for its core network (before Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection).
source: GMBB
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