LTE is in Switzerland on air

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Swisscom will be the first network operator in Switzerland a mobile network of the fourth generation in operation. On Thursday, the company wants to go to 26 locations with LTE on the air. After the pilot projects launched in December 2011 in Bern, Zurich and various tourist centers Swisscom LTE mobile technology (Long Term Evolution) will now switch to a broad user community.

 The beginning can first 20 percent of the population - mainly in the big cities and major tourist areas - use the quick generation of mobile communications with initially up to 100 Mbit / s downstream. By the end of 2013, the new network to cover 60 to 70 percent of the population. Swisscom also intends to expand the 3G HSPA technology continues, which will then be available for approximately 97 percent of the population.



Thanks 4G/LTE-Netzes could the rapid growing amount of data to be handled on the mobile networks in the future, hoping to Swisscom. Thus, the mobile data volume transferred in Swisscom network currently redouble every 16 months. Moreover, the carrier expects a discharge of its 3G network. By 2016, Swisscom will invest CHF 1.5 billion (approximately EUR 1.25 billion) to expand its mobile network.

 Swisscom uses for transmission mainly due to the frequencies of the main bands 1800 MHz, parallel to the 2600-MHz band be removed. From 2014 to LTE also be possible on the 800 MHz frequencies. As part of the auction of old and new mobile spectrum earlier this year, Swisscom had also acquired the rights to use spectrum in the 900 MHz and 2100 MHz band.

 For LTE, Swisscom start the Android smartphone HTC One XL on sale in December will also be the Samsung Galaxy SIII 4G, the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 4G and the Nokia Lumia 920 be available. In addition, Swisscom is offering a USB modem from Hauwei for notebooks and a mobile hotspot from ZTE. The user of an iPhone 5 or one of the new iPads are in Apple's first Quarter of 2013, will receive a software update, tells the Swisscom.

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