Ericsson and NSN picked by TeliaSonera for LTE roll-out

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: TeliaSonera has contracted Ericsson and Nokia Siemens to roll out its LTE networks in Sweden and Norway. Ericsson has been selected as the sole supplier of the common core network as well as providing LTE radio access and NSN is required to cover LTE radio equipment, LTE network management systems, and LTE multi-vendor integration and care services.

LTE services were started by TeliaSonera in the late 2009 in Oslo and Stockholm, covering the city centres to test the services.

Sweden’s 25 largest municipalities and recreation areas and Norway’s four largest municipalities will be covered under the network roll-out during 2010 and 2011. City network in Oslo will continued to be finalized by Huawei.