Telenor Bulgaria will offer 4G services under the LTE standard in the 1,800 MHz band to all of its customers as of 1 December. The maximum speed of the Telenor 4G network will be 75 Мbps. The service will be initially available in Sofia and most of southern Bulgaria. By mid-December, Telenor's LTE service will cover all Bulgarian cities with a population of more than 20,000, including all regional centres and the most popular winter resorts. This includes the cities Veliko Tarnovo, Botevgrad, Gabrovo, Sevlievo, Lovech, Troyan, Pleven, Razgrad, Shumen, Targovishte, Lom, Montana, Vidin, Vratsa, Gorna Oryahovitsa and Svishtov, for effective outdoor coverage of 56.73 percent of the country’s population.
Telenor said will continue to expand the coverage and the capacity of its LTE network, depending on spectrum availability, further into 2016. Telenor 4G services will be available at no additional cost until 31 January 2016 to all customers with 4G-enabled handsets and SIM cards, which are all Telenor SIM cards (including 3in1 SIMs) purchased or replaced in the last several years. Users with older SIM cards will be able to replace them free of charge at any Telenor or official partner shop where a wide variety of 4G-enabled devices is also available after 1 December.
