Telekom Austria Group Successfully Runs Next-Generation LTE Trial
- Telekom Austria Group ran a live LTE demonstration based on the successful combination of next generation mobile technology and state-of-the-art fixed net infrastructure;
- A live LTE video connection was established with the company’s telepresence videoconferencing system, the HD signals were then transported via a high-performance glass fiber network to the telepresence-room in several Austrian cities;
- Next-generation mobile technologies and their combination with fixed net infrastructure based on “AirToFiber” solutions are the company’s response to the unparalleled surge in data volumes in recent years;
- Telekom Austria Group’s successful live demonstration will pave the way for a potential commercial LTE launch in the future;
Vienna, June 29, 2010: Telekom Austria Group (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) today announced that it has successfully run a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) trial, performing a live LTE video call between technical engineers driving in a bus in Vienna´s 21st District, one of the company’s LTE test areas, and their counterparts in the provincial capitals of Graz, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck. This LTE live test-call was performed with Telekom Austria Group’s telepresence videoconfering system, which supports life-size images with an ultra-high-definition video signal and offers a completely new face-to-face meeting experience. 
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Telekom Austria Group’s LTE live demonstration, which was based on the successful combination of next-generation mobile technologies and state-of-the-art fixed net infrastructure, underpins the potential of LTE to deliver a future-proof mobile broadband experience by enabling extremely high bandwidths under real-world network conditions. The LTE transmitters currently cover a few test areas in Vienna´s 2nd and 21st districts and in St. Pölten in Lower Austria. The LTE transmitters as well as nearly 1,000 further base stations are connected via high-performance glass fiber.
With the LTE trial and the roll-out of state-of-the-art mobile technologies such as HSPA+ and in combination with the fixed net infrastructure, which enables Telekom Austria Group to effectively work with an increased surge in traffic volumes and multimedia data-hungry applications. Telekom Austria Group’s mobile network, for instance, registered a 250-fold increase in its monthly data volume over the past 5 years. Mobile broadband customers reached more than 500,000 subscribers, which represents a 7-fold increase since 2006.
Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO Telekom Austria Group, said: “We expect data volumes to continue to surge going forward. Such sharp rises in data traffic will only be able to be managed by combining the latest mobile and fixed net technologies based on so-called air-to-fiber solutions. LTE will meet the significant future capacity requirements of mobile usage. “AirToFiber” enables the transfer of large data volumes most efficiently.”
The success of this LTE live demonstration has proven that Telekom Austria Group is well prepared for a potential commercial LTE launch.
Notes to the Editors
The radio technology for the LTE pilot project has been provided by Telekom Austria Group’s cooperation partner HUAWEI. Other pilot project partners include Starent/Cisco (which supplied the evolved packet core), Blueslice (which supplied the home subscriber server) as well as Kapsch CarrierCom (which supplied the integration of the back-end components).
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Contact:
Elisabeth Mattes
Telekom Austria Group’s Spokeswoman
Tel: +43 664 331 2730
E-Mail: elisabeth.mattes@telekom.at
