Samsung and TeliaSonera bringing LTE to vikings in 2010
By Vladislav Savov 
posted Oct 22nd 2009 9:06AM
posted Oct 22nd 2009 9:06AM
Samsung Provides LTE Devices to TeliaSonera for World's First 4G/LTE Service Commercialization
Samsung and TeliaSonera Gear Up for 4G Mobile Service
Seoul, Korea, October 22, 2009 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leading mobile phone and equipment provider, today announced a contract with TeliaSonera to provide Long Term Evolution (LTE) devices. LTE technology is one of the most anticipated technologies for 4thgeneration (4G) mobile service in the telecommunications industry. According to the contract between Samsung and TeliaSonera, a leading telecommunication service provider in the Nordic and Baltic countries and the emerging markets of Eurasia head-quartered in Sweden, Samsung will provide mobile broadband devices for commercial service in Sweden and Norway next year.
"We are very pleased to work together with TeliaSonera for this historic step forward in the modern telecommunications industry. With TeliaSonera's initiation of LTE service, we hope more consumers to enjoy advanced mobile broadband service much earlier than expected," said JK Shin, executive vice president and head of the Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics. "Samsung is committed to providing the best and the latest LTE devices to TeliaSonera and will fully support the commercial service in Sweden and Norway next year."
"The 4G modems from Samsung will play a very important part of our 4G launch in Sweden and Norway," says Kenneth Karlberg, President and Head of Mobility Services, TeliaSonera. "We look forward to sharing Samsung's world leading mobile experience and that we together will offer our customers a whole new way of enjoying mobility services."
The Samsung LTE device (Model name: GT-B3710) is expected to be the world's first LTE device. The device is a USB stick that can be connected to a laptop computer, or other portable devices. The USB stick incorporates Samsung's in-house developed LTE modem chip, branded Kalmia, and supports 2.6GHz band for LTE service.
With this contract, Samsung has again demonstrated its leadership in advanced mobile technology within the mobile industry and telecommunication standardization communities. Samsung's LTE solution is fully compliant with the latest 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) LTE Release 8 (Rel-8) standard. Based on its number of contributions, Samsung ranks as one of the top companies within the 3GPP, the association that specified the LTE standard. Samsung also has four seats on the wireless networking standardization working group executive board.
Samsung and TeliaSonera Gear Up for 4G Mobile Service
Seoul, Korea, October 22, 2009 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leading mobile phone and equipment provider, today announced a contract with TeliaSonera to provide Long Term Evolution (LTE) devices. LTE technology is one of the most anticipated technologies for 4thgeneration (4G) mobile service in the telecommunications industry. According to the contract between Samsung and TeliaSonera, a leading telecommunication service provider in the Nordic and Baltic countries and the emerging markets of Eurasia head-quartered in Sweden, Samsung will provide mobile broadband devices for commercial service in Sweden and Norway next year.
"We are very pleased to work together with TeliaSonera for this historic step forward in the modern telecommunications industry. With TeliaSonera's initiation of LTE service, we hope more consumers to enjoy advanced mobile broadband service much earlier than expected," said JK Shin, executive vice president and head of the Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics. "Samsung is committed to providing the best and the latest LTE devices to TeliaSonera and will fully support the commercial service in Sweden and Norway next year."
"The 4G modems from Samsung will play a very important part of our 4G launch in Sweden and Norway," says Kenneth Karlberg, President and Head of Mobility Services, TeliaSonera. "We look forward to sharing Samsung's world leading mobile experience and that we together will offer our customers a whole new way of enjoying mobility services."
The Samsung LTE device (Model name: GT-B3710) is expected to be the world's first LTE device. The device is a USB stick that can be connected to a laptop computer, or other portable devices. The USB stick incorporates Samsung's in-house developed LTE modem chip, branded Kalmia, and supports 2.6GHz band for LTE service.
With this contract, Samsung has again demonstrated its leadership in advanced mobile technology within the mobile industry and telecommunication standardization communities. Samsung's LTE solution is fully compliant with the latest 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) LTE Release 8 (Rel-8) standard. Based on its number of contributions, Samsung ranks as one of the top companies within the 3GPP, the association that specified the LTE standard. Samsung also has four seats on the wireless networking standardization working group executive board.
HUZZAH !!!!! 4G thou art coolst and needest !!!
Dignity is your lift? Is Disgnity the company that manufactures your elevators? (You will only get it if you are British :D )
Dignity is your lift? Is Dignity the company that manufactures your elevators? (You will only get it if you are British :D )
I take it no-one that works for Engadget has ever been to Scandinavia, nor will you ever be allowed to travel there after this story...
Thanks for throwing around stereotypes like it's nobody's business, not cool Engadget.
"remember their world-conquering ways of the past"
You mean Icesave and Kaupthing Edge?...
I'm from the land of the vikings and I thought that the comment about "our world-conquering ways" was kinda funny. Com'on...it was..funny..it was...really...funny!
It was just a joke. Get over it. Grow up.
The only stereotype being flaunted here is you being hyper sensitive about the most innocuous joke ever posted on here.
I know many Northern Europeans as my current girlfriend is Swedish, and for the most part, forgive my stereotyping here, but the group seems far less " I want a reason to be offended to prove how liberal and sensitive I am." then many people I know from central/western Europe.
Believe me, I'm sure the 5 year old girl in Ghana being raped because she was born on the wrong side of some river is going to sleep well tonight knowing you made a blow against social injustice today.
Dis is da shniz ! 4G U Knowwww, I wonder if u can get an unlimited plan with this ?
Netcom will be providing 4G LTE to Norwegian customers.
ja for faen ! ;D
We come from the land of the ice and snow, with LTE wireless the data flows....
If those horns were real I would buy
Agreed - Horns attached or nothing.
That 4G modem doesn't look fast.
In fact, it looks kinda pokey.
100 Mbps?
goodbye cable connections
I'd wait to find out what the real speeds are before getting excited.
"100Mbps mobile broadband, coming to a snow-covered nation near you "
I'm guessing Canada is an exception then :P
Long live the vikings!
Now we only need some computer too and we can stop piggybacking polarbears and surf all the way-.--
Only if LTE will keep the vikes 6-0..
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Hmm, the "cheerful" link is to Finnish Nokia!
Finland is NOT a Scandinavian country! The Scandinavian countries are ONLY: Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Finland is not Scandinavian because they don't share the same ethnic background, languages, culture or history as us Scandinavians.
Norkings rejoice.
Correction; TeliaSonera is a Swedish-Finnish company. Sonera is one of our older operators that later merged with Swedish Telia. So yay, maybe we´ll get LTE in the same time-frame.
Andrew is right, Finland is a nordic country, but not a part of Scandinavia. Though there is a lot of scandinavian blood running through the veins of our people. Finland was a part of Sweden (and then Russia) for a long time.