TeliaSonera Selects Nokia Siemens Networks for LTE Deployment

Wireless carrier TeliaSonera announced today that it reached an agreement with telecommunications solutions provider Nokia Siemens Networks for the deployment of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio network in Sweden and Norway. According to the agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will deliver LTE radio equipment, LTE network management systems, and LTE multi-vendor integration and care services to the wireless carrier.

Lars Klasson, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Business Area Mobility Services at TeliaSonera, says, “We have chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to deliver TeliaSonera’s 4G radio network in Sweden and Norway based on their high quality technology and competitive offer. Our customers are the first in the world to use commercial 4G services. The use of mobile broadband in the Nordic is exploding and we offer 4G to meet the demand for high speed and capacity.”

The two companies also announced that Nokia Siemens Network would provide TeliaSonera with its Single RAN solution with the energy efficient Flexi Multiradio base stations. Moreover, the infrastructure solutions provider will also deliver its NetAct network management system to the carrier, so as to monitor, manage and optimize the LTE network. The provision of multi-vendor integration and care services has been also included in the new agreement.

“We are cooperating closely with TeliaSonera in Sweden and Norway to roll out commercial LTE services in these leading markets,” says Jan Lindgren, head of the TeliaSonera customer team at Nokia Siemens Networks. “We will provide TeliaSonera with our field-proven radio network platform for radio network modernization and next generation LTE services.”

As many of you might already know, TeliaSonera is the first wireless carrier in the world to have revealed the commercial availability of an LTE network. The announcement was made back in December, when the company launched its LTE network in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. The LTE technology is expected to offer it the possibility to deliver advanced mobile broadband services to its users.