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AT&T Announces LTE Equipment Suppliers

Feb 10, 2010, 7:39 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Today AT&T announced that it has selected Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson to supply equipment for its Long Term Evolution network deployment in the U.S. AT&T said that it will trial LTE in two (unnamed) markets later this year, and plans to launch full commercial deployment of LTE in 2011. AT&T also said that it will continue to upgrade its HSPA network to 7.2Mbps speeds, as well as introduce more devices that can access those speeds and continue to bolster its backhaul equipment. Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson are the companies behind AT&T's 3G network. Financial terms of the agreements between AT&T, Aclatel-Lucent and Ericsson were not disclosed.

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norcalattrep

Feb 11, 2010, 2:54 AM

Backwards Compatibility...

It's a subject not really discussed much... Looks like AT&T 4G devices will be backwards compatible... Question is... will the competition... Cause if theirs isn't, then is it really a competition? Feedback please...

thickjake

Looks like CDMA will handoff with LTE.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/blogs/nw-watch/2010/01/ ... »

GeeksAreBest

Feb 10, 2010, 9:19 AM

Yeah...so...

Remember how everyone's been dogging AT&T for not doing anything that looked like actively looking at LTE? This seems like pretty decent progression to me.

terryjohnson16

Doesn't mean anything coming from AT&T. Whether they upgrade or not, they will still have bad press about their network.

They only rushing their LTE installs, cause Verizon said they are way ahead of AT&T, and will have LTE by 2011.

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Jayshmay

Well hey, 2011 is a whole, whole lot better thyan 2012/2013 and so on. Like ATT's CTO said, once they are done with adding 3x more fiber optic to the cell sites, they will be ready capacity wise for LTE, so...here it is.

Ooohhh, I hope Las Vegas i...
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