Huawei has announced that Mobyland, Poland’s leading 2G mobile provider has, with the cooperation of CenterNet, successfully launched the world’s first commercial 1800MHz LTE/EPC network using Huawei’s end to end (E2E) LTE/EPC (Long Term Evolution/Evolved Packet Core) solution. Mobyland, in collaboration with CenterNet, is now able to provide a mobile broadband service to mobile broadband operators and their end users with peak downlink speeds of more than 146 Mb/s per user.
According to the contract, Huawei will deploy a mobile broadband network across Poland for Mobyland with its SingleRAN@Broad solution. The deployment includes the world’s first commercial LTE/EPC network based on 1800MHz spectrum with 20MHz bandwidth on one radio unit.
“Mobyland is committed to providing a high-quality mobile broadband service for our customers in Poland, and we are excited to partner with Huawei to introduce Poland’s first commercial LTE/EPC network,” said Adam Kurianski, president of CenterNet and a board member of Mobyland. “Huawei is one of the few providers in the world that is capable of delivering such an end-to-end commercial LTE/EPC solution.”
The first phase of the commercial LTE network was deployed by software upgrading Mobyland’s existing 2G network, based on Huawei equipment, covering Poland’s major cities such as Warsaw, Katowice, and Lodz. The high-quality and rapid network deployment is said to demonstrate that Huawei’s mobile network solution ensures smooth evolution in the future as well as reduced TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
Refarming Mobyland and CenterNet’s extant 2G bands, such as 1800MHz, will allow for greater performance across bands. This, in turn, will enable the LTE network to improve spectrum efficiency, enhance coverage quality, reduce the quantity of sites, and decrease carbon emissions. It also results in a reduced TCO for mobile broadband operators, says Huawei.
“In addition to spurring the development of the LTE industry and ancillary technologies, Huawei closely cooperates with leading operators worldwide to explore new business models and to enlarge potential business opportunities,” said Ying Weimin, president of LTE Product Line, Huawei. “Using a combination of existing, and new, wireless bands, Huawei is able to provide customised and competitive mobile broadband solutions to our customers. This approach results in a win-win solution for operators, end users and the LTE industry.”