www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Second half of 2011 could encounter the deployment of LTE infrastructure in large cities across the country by the Venezuelan mobile operator, Movistar. However, the necessary wireless spectrum to launch LTE is still not allocated to the company.

According to company’s networks and infrastructure VP, Juan Comerma, low frequencies are required to achieve LTE deployment. Price and availability of LTE devices are the other factors affecting the commercial launch date.