4G Mobile Phone Picks Up Speed in Scandinavia
Mobile phone industry analysts are predicting 4G phone services won’t take off in a big way in Scandinavia until around 2013.
Swedish / Finnish 4G mobile phone operator TeliaSonera estimates that out of 400,000 potential customers in Stockholm and Oslo only around 1000 have so far subscribed to 4G. TeliaSonera is in the process of expanding its 4G network to another 25 cities in Sweden and 5 cities in Norway.
The first 4G phones will only become available this summer and mobile industry analysts say take up will accelerate when services currently available for data modems and wireless cards only are also available on compatible mobile phones.
Denmark 4G – TeliaSonera Wins License
Mobile phone company TeliaSonera has won a license to operate a new 4G mobile phone network in Denmark. The company expects to start offering the new network to customers in the Spring of 2011.
TeliaSonera already has 4G phone networks in Sweden, Norway and Finland and was the first company to offer a full commercial 4G phone network to mobile phone users with the launch of its city networks in Stockholm and Oslo.
The license lasts for twenty years and will provide speeds of around ten times that of 3G.