TeliaSonera-Huawei to deploy 2G/3G/4G in Norway

TeliaSonera partners with Huawei Technologies to expand and upgrade its GSM, HSPA+ and LTE network throughout southern Norway. It will provide enormous coverage and speed improvement to its customers and will expand existing 4G/LTE network in Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger. Huawei will extend high quality technology and competitive total solution and addresses key mobile broadband challenges of bandwidth, capacity and cost.

TeliaSonera will implement Huawei's SingleRAN@Broad solution offering theoretical data speeds of 150 Mb/s. In addition, the 42 Mb/s HSPA+ network will be deployed and prepared for 84 Mb/s HSPA+. The project will start immediately and be finalized by the end of 2012. Once completed, the improved network will provide end users with improved quality of service and higher data speeds across the significantly increased coverage area.

This partnership aids TeliaSonera to converge 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE into a single network, simplifying structure, reducing costs and human resource requirements, realizing exceptional improvements in O&M efficiency. A new feature within Huawei's SingleRAN@Broad solution is the 5-band and 3-mode technology supporting 5 frequency bands and 3 standards in one cabinet. Using Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology, spectrum can be dynamically assigned to any wireless standard, optimizing the use of available frequencies.