- Sonera, one of the leading mobile operators in Finland, has launched a commercial LTE Advanced (LTE-A) service in certain areas in Finland's capital city, Helsinki via partnership with Nokia Networks. The agreement with Nokia also includes systems integration services and Nokia’s Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station.
- Sonera is offering the service to its business customers on Sonera Sopiva Pro or Real 4G Max subscriptions and has lined up Samsung Galaxy Alpha and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphones to be used on the LTE-A network with more devices to be added soon.
- The wireless broadband service based on 4G LTE carrier agregation technology can provide downlink data rates of up to 300 Mbps, offering data speeds two times faster than previously possible with 4G LTE. The downlink data rates of 300 Mbps are achieved by aggregating spectrum resources with a total bandwith of up to 40 MHz on 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz frequencies. Carrier aggregation accelerates typical use data rates via a more flexible radio resource selection in LTE-Advanced networks and enables operators to create larger, virtual carrier bandwidths for services by combining separate spectrum bands.
Kalev Reiljan, CTO,TeliaSonera Finland
We want to offer the fastest possible data speeds to our customers. Over 60% of Finns use smartphones and generate more data traffic than customers using older devices. With LTE-Advanced we make sure our network can address these capacity changes now and in the future.
Margus Hunt, Customer Team Head, Nokia Networks
Sonera’s customers will enjoy the higher speeds, just as top car speeds are of interest to drivers. An LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation network can be linked to a multi-lane highway, where adding more lanes allows more cars to travel from A to B. Nokia’s Carrier Aggregation software effectively does this both dynamically and flexibly in the network, selecting the best radio cells to be aggregated.
