4G Network Deployment Plans Around The World

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4G Network Deployment Plans Around the World

Africa
Safaricom, a telecommunication company in East & Central Africa, began its setup of a 4G network in October 2010 after the now retired Kenya Tourist Board Chairman, Michael Joseph, regarded their 3G network as a white elephant. Huawei was given the contract and the network is set to go fully commercial by the end of Q1 of 2011.
Australia
Telstra announced on 15 February 2011, that it intends to upgrade its current Next G network to 4G with Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in the central business districts of all Australian capital cities and selected regional centers by the end of 2011.
Belgium
On 28 June 2011, Belgiums largest telecom operator Belgacom announced the outroll of the countrys first 4G network. On 3 July 2012 it confirmed the outroll in 5 major cities and announced the commercial launch to take place before the end of 2012.
Brazil
On 27 April 2012, Brazils telecoms regulator Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes (Anatel) announced that the 6 host cities for the 2013
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Confederations Cup to be held there will be the first to have their networks upgraded to 4G.
Canada
Telus and Bell Canada, the major Canadian cdmaOne and EV-DO carriers, have announced that they will be cooperating towards building a fourth generation (4G) LTE wireless broadband network in Canada. As a transitional measure, they are implementing 3G UMTS network that went live in November 2009.
France On 21 June 2012, SFR will launch 4G in Marseille. It will be the first 4G commercial launch in France.
India In India, Bharti Airtel launched Indias first 4G service, using TD-LTE technology, in Kolkata on 10 April 2012. Fourteen months prior to the official launch in Kolkata, a group consisting of China Mobile, Bharti Airtel and SoftBank Mobile came together, called Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) in Barcelona, Spain and they signed the commitment towards TD-LTE standards for the Asian region.
Middle East In mid September 2011, Mobily of Saudi Arabia, announced their 4G LTE networks to be ready after months of testing and evaluations.

In December 2011, UAEs Etisalat announced the commercial launch of 4G LTE services covering over 70% of countrys urban areas. As of May, 2012 only few areas have been covered.
Romania
On 31 October 2012, Vodafone has launched 4G tests. Now 4G connectivity is available in several cities: Otopeni, Constanta, Galati, Craiova, Brasov, Bacau, Iasi, Cluj-Napoca, Arad and Timisoara.
Scandinavia
TeliaSonera started deploying LTE (branded 4G) in Stockholm and Oslo November 2009 (as seen above), and in several Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish cities during 2010. In June 2010, Swedish television companies used 4G to broadcast live television from the Swedish Crown Princess Royal Wedding.
South Korea
On July 7, 2008, South Korea announced plans to spend 60 billion won, or US$58,000,000, on developing 4G and even 5G technologies, with the goal of having the highest mobile phone market share by 2012, and the hope of becoming an international standard.
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel and Dialog Axiata announced that first time in South Asia Sri Lanka have successfully tested and demonstrated 4G technology on 6 May 2011(Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel) and 7 May 2011(Dialog Axiata) and began the setup of their 4G Networks in Sri Lanka.
United Kingdom & Ireland
In May 2005, Digiweb, an Irish wired and wireless broadband company, announced that they had received a mobile communications license from the Irish telecoms regulator ComReg. This service will be issued the mobile code 088 in Ireland and will be used for the provision of 4G mobile communications. Digiweb launched a mobile broadband network using FLASH-OFDM technology at 872 MHz.
In the United Kingdom and in Ireland, O2 UK and O2 Ireland (both subsidiaries of Telefnica Europe) are to use Slough as a guinea pig in testing the 4G network and has called upon Huawei to install LTE technology in six masts across the town to allow people to talk to each other via HD video conferencing and play PlayStation games while on the move. On February 29, 2012, the first commercial 4G LTE service in the UK launched in Borough of Southwark, London. Ofcom is in the process of auctioning off the UK-wide 4G spectrum. This will use the airspace made available following the countrys analogue television signal switch off. In October 2012, MVNO, Abica Limited, announced they were to trial 4G LTE services for high speed M2M applications.
On 21 August 2012, the United Kingdom s regulator Ofcom allowed Everything Everywhere, the owner of the Orange and T-Mobile networks, to use its existing bandwidth to launch fourth-generation (4G) mobile services. The 4G service from Everything Everywhere was launched on 11th September 2012. In December, 16 UK cities including London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast will have 4G networks live.

Launched by Orange and T-mobile owner Everything Everywhere, the new networks will be available in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. EE plans to roll out the service in further six cities including Belfast, Derby, Hull, Newcastle, Nottingham and Southampton. The group aims to cover 70% of the UK by 2013 and 98% by 2014.
On November 12, 2012 Ofcom published final regulations and a timetable for the 4G mobile spectrum auction. It also launched a new 4G consumer page, providing information on the upcoming auction and the consumer benefits that new services will deliver.
On November 15, 2012 the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) announced the results of its multi-band spectrum auction. This auction awarded spectrum rights of use in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands in Ireland from 2013 to 2030. The winners of spectrum were 3, Meteor, O2 Ireland and Vodafone. All of the winning bidders in the auction have indicated that they intend to move rapdily to deploy advanced services.
United States
On September 20, 2007, Verizon Wireless announced plans for a joint effort with the Vodafone Group to transition its networks to the 4G standard LTE. On December 9, 2008, Verizon Wireless announced their intentions to build and roll out an LTE network by the end of 2009. Since then, Verizon Wireless has said that they will start their rollout by the end of 2010.
Sprint Nextel offers a 3G/4G connection plan, currently available in select cities in the United States. It delivers rates up to 10 Mbit/s. Sprint has announced that they will launch a LTE network in early 2012.

Verizon Wireless has announced that it plans to augment its CDMA2000-based EV-DO 3G network in the United States with LTE, and is supposed to complete a rollout of 175 cities by the end of 2011, two thirds of the US population by mid-2012, and cover the existing 3G network by the end of 2013. AT&T, along with Verizon Wireless, has chosen to migrate toward LTE from 2G/GSM and 3G/HSPA by 2011.
Sprint Nextel has deployed WiMAX technology which it has labeled 4G as of October 2008. It is currently deploying to additional markets and is the first US carrier to offer a WiMAX phone.
The U.S. FCC is exploring the possibility of deployment and operation of a nationwide 4G public safety network which would allow first responders to seamlessly communicate between agencies and across geographies, regardless of devices. In June 2010 the FCC released a comprehensive white paper which indicates that the 10 MHz of dedicated spectrum currently allocated from the 1700 MHz spectrum for public safety will provide adequate capacity and performance necessary for normal communications as well as serious emergency situations.

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