Ukko Mobile has announced going live with the world’s first commercial LTE 450MHz network.
At the launch, the network was proven to cover an astonishing 99.9% of the Finland population and became the network with the best LTE coverage overnight. As a strategic partner of Ukko Mobile, Huawei provides end-to-end LTE 450MHz network solutions. The deployment and commercial launch of the world’s first commercial LTE 450MHz network marks the 450MHz spectrum’s entrance into the LTE era. It is now widely expected that the 115 CDMA 450MHz networks across the world will migrate to LTE450MHz technology in due course.
The emergence of the 450MHz band as the new LTE band provides a huge opportunity for global operators as they face a shortage of spectrum resources. With advantages such as wide coverage and relatively low cost, this is the best solution for wireless bandwidth deployment with large coverage requirements.
Ukko Mobile, along with some of Finland’s largest transportation companies like the Finnish National Railways VR Group as its customers, aims to offer its nationwide LTE service initially to the enterprise, business to business, governmental sectors and transportation. During the next six months, Ukko Mobile plans to launch an innovative prepaid-based family-oriented wireless broadband access service targeting more remote areas and locations with sporadic peaks in demand such as the 700,000 summer cottages in Finland.
Ukko Mobile’s LTE 4G network offers countrywide LTE coverage and stable data connections to enterprises and government bodies also outside of town and urban areas. “The superior coverage area of our network combined with the very low latency of the new LTE technology provides excellent user experience and enables remote workload execution all across Finland,” said Antti Pellinen, CEO, Ukko Mobile Inc.
Huawei LTE 450MHz network solutions can not only facilitate the smooth migration of CDMA 450MHz to LTE 450MHz, but also re-use legacy network resources like base stations, sites, power, and antennas to help decrease network investment.
