www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Huawei became the first of Telefonica’s trial LTE vendors to have successfully implemented a live trial LTE network performed in the Slough area, the headquarters of O2 in the UK. Cell peak downlink rate of 150Mbps was achieved during the trial.

Recently, Telef³nica, O2 announced the commencement of 4G LTE/SAE (System Architecture Evolution) technology trails. According to Derek McManus, CTO of O2 UK, the successful trials will allow the company to better understand this emerging technology besides helping them to offer mobile broadband services to its next generation customers.

Samuel Sun, Managing Director of Huawei UK feels that the trials will give an excellent reference to Telef³nica O2 for the evaluation of LTE technology.