Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei has won a contract at Net4Mobility, the joint venture of Tele2 and Telenor. Under the terms of the agreement, Huawei will supply Tele2 and Telenor with infrastructure and modems for the development of a LTE mobile communications network in Sweden. The network is scheduled for commercial launch in 2010. The network is expected to cover 99 percent of the Swedish population by end-2013, starting with densely populated areas. The deployment also includes increasing the number of base stations for voice traffic on the GSM network by 30-50 percent, to provide enhanced indoor- and outdoor coverage across the country. Rival TeliaSonera this week started a trial of LTE services in Stockholm, using equipment from Ericsson.
