Senin, Februari 21, 2011
Administrator
Alcatel-Lucent and Orange have recently announced that they will perform a demonstration of the LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology in Romania this Monday. Alcatel-Lucent's officials stated that the test will be demonstrated in Bucharest using the company's platform from its own research lab in Timisoara.
Nokia Siemens, the main Alcatel-Lucent's competitor on the Romanian telecom market, also plans to show a complete LTE solution in the next couple of weeks.
However, it seems that Orange and Alcatel-Lucent are the only companies that filed for experimental LTE network frequencies this year.
According to ANCOM, the regulatory communications institution in Romania, they have received three license requests for LTE network band using 2,5 - 2,69 GHz frequencies.
These have been approved for Alcatel-Lucent (1 license for Bucharest and 1 for Timisoara) and Orange Romania (1 license for Bucharest).
Even though these experimental licenses are given for a limited time, usually six months, the network operator can ask the license for a shorter time.
Thus, Alcatel-Lucent requested a one-month (February-March) experimental license for Bucharest and a six-month license for Timisoara starting from January 2011.
Orange Romania received its LTE license since September 2010, but the carrier filed for an extent which has been approved until March 2011. The carrier tested LTE technology on its own built network in Bucharest last year and is expected to commercially debut LTE services this year.
Orange and Alcatel-Lucent also teamed up last year to demonstrate the LTE technology in Chisinau, Moldova. As part of the test, the companies implemented HD voice service through the HSDPA network, as well.
Even though the LTE technology is exclusively used for data transfers at the moment, the first LTE mobile phones fully compatible with the VoLTE (Voice over LTE) standard have been showcased at the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
