www.WirelessFederation.com/news: T-Mobile Austria, nation’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, has reportedly unveiled that it has been running a trial of long term evolution (LTE) network in Innsbruck since the beginning of July. The network is claimed to be the largest of its kind in Europe and operates across 60 cell sites which were supplied by Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies. T-Mobile explained that the focus of the trial is to gather customer experience data, as well as proving the technical performance of the hardware and software.
T-Mobile has asked the Austrian government to consider the distribution of 2.6GHz frequencies, so it can prepare to introduce the technology on a commercial basis, although such a launch is not expected until the end of 2010 at the earliest.