Aero2, Huawei to launch world's first commercial LTE TDD/FDD network

Aero2, the Polish wireless broadband operator, and Chinese electronics giant Huawei has teamed up to build and launch the world’s first commercial LTE TDD/FDD telecoms network. Aero2 intends to broaden the TDD/FDD (Time Division Duplex / Frequency Division Duplex) network coverage by as much as a quarter of Poland’s population with equipment manufactured by Huawei and deliver mobile broadband services to more than 200 rural and urban areas in the country before the end of next year. In May this year, Aero2 and Huawei began the implementation of a commercial TD-LTE network on the 2500 MHz (2.5 GHz) band, a joint venture that bagged this year’s Global Telecommunications Business (GTB) Innovation award for “Wireless network infrastructure innovation” to improve mobile broadband coverage and contribution to the abolishment of the “digital divide.” With Huawei’s SingleRAN LTE solution technology, the mobile operator aims to ramp up high-speed mobile Internet access with downlink data speeds of 134 Mbps and uplink speeds of 124.8 Mbps. Aero2 President Adam Kuriański said the company takes pride in the Huawei partnership to launch the world’s first commercial LTE TDD/FDD network.