TeliaSonera has commercially launched LTE services to customers in Stockholm and Oslo. The two pioneering city networks cover the central city areas of Stockholm and Oslo and will be used for mobile data. The Stockholm city network is supplied by Ericsson, while the Oslo city network is supplied by Huawei. The USB modems at launch come from Samsung, based on its LTE chipnamed Kalmia and supporting the 2.6GHz band. Samsung said it will provide an updated version of the USB dongle, which offers backward compatibility to LTE, HSPA, and EDGE service, in the first half of 2010. A spokesman for Ericsson declined to say how many base stations were active on the new network, but said the maximum speeds available are 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload. Ericsson is supplying its RBS6000 base stations, an evolved packet core network and backhaul based on the SmartEdge 1200 router. Evaluation of suppliers for TeliaSonera's next-generation common core network and radio networks in the Nordic and Baltic countries is in progress and vendors will be selected in the beginning of 2010. TeliaSonera has three nationwide LTE licences, namely in Sweden, Norway and also recently in Finland.
