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Vodafone Australia to Deploy LTE Services Next Year
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Vodafone Australia has announced plans to deploy LTE services from next year as it moves toward completing a two year rollout of new network infrastructure to replace the problematic system it was relying on.
Vodafone has already completed its new network roll out in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania and Canberra. Vodafone reports significant improvements in the performance metrics it uses to assess customers' call quality and continuity of smartphone, tablet and mobile broadband data sessions in all upgraded states and territories. Vodafone recently commenced its new network roll out in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne and will complete the upgrades to all sites on the Eastern Seaboard later this year.
Vodafone also plans to start switching on DC-HSPA+ in selected metropolitan areas from September 2012 and begin rolling out LTE in selected areas from 2013.
"Vodafone 3G+ and 4G (LTE) are very exciting technologies that will feature very strongly in our network improvements over the next two years," explained Bill Morrow, Chief Executive at Vodafone Australia. "As we now approach the completion of this phase of our national network roll out, we have mapped out a very clear path for the introduction of higher data speeds and enhanced coverage for the benefit of our smartphone, tablet and mobile broadband customers."
With the equipment replacement program almost complete, Vodafone is also focusing on adding more capacity to its network with the latest technology in order to support growth in usage and deliver improved speeds. Between now and the end of 2012, Vodafone plans to install new transmission equipment and upgrade thousands of connections to its base stations to the latest Internet Protocol (IP) technology, which is designed to provide faster data speeds and enable rapid upgrades in capacity as network usage grows.
Tags: [vodafone] [lte] [dc-hspa+] [Australia]
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