AM, Huawei launch LTE network in Mexico

Huawei has won a LTE project from Telcel, the subsidiary of Latin American wireless services provider America Movil (AM) to launch Mexico's commercial LTE network. The launched commercial LTE services will cover nine cities. The network will be expanded to 26 markets until the first quarter of next year and the companies aim to reach out to 65% of the country's population.

Huawei's SingleRAN LTE solution was chosen by AM to build a Heterogenous Network (HetNet), which will enhance network spectrum utilization and end-user data transfer speeds, enable a significant breakthrough for improving user experience on wireless networks in Latin America. During the launch ceremony, Huawei's Ascend P1 smartphone and Huawei's LTE broadband modem E397 device were also displayed.

AM is a top-tier operator in Latin America, providing telecommunication services to 18 countries, and is also one of the top five operators worldwide. As the largest subsidiary of the AM Group, Telcel has a nearly 70% market share of the Mexican mobile market with nearly 70 million subscribers. In order to meet end users' increasing demands for data services, Telcel made large investments in deploying LTE network.