Ericsson has signed a commercial contract with Korean communications firm LG Uplus to build a high speed LTE commercial service network. With this deal, LG Uplus will be able to support the existing CDMA and LTE mobile service concurrently. Ericsson will be responsible for building LTE network in Seoul and metropolitan area and will supply Evolved Packet Core network, LTE base stations and optical repeaters for access and transmission. The project will start in May this year and be completed in 2012. With the LTE service, consumers will be able to access high-speed mobile broadband services like high-definition video, voice and data. At the initial stage, the service will be provided through a dongle that allows LTE network access.
