Ericsson and Samsung working together to make their LTE devices and networks interoperable

Ericsson and Samsung are collaborating to ensure interoperability between the commercial LTE device from Samsung and the live network from Ericsson.

Through extensive testing in Stockholm, Samsung LTE dongles and Ericsson's infrastructure have complied for commercial deployment, 3GPP Release 8 March baseline.

Johan Wibergh, Senior Vice President and Head of Networks at Ericsson says: "This is the first time a commercial, standard compliant LTE device demonstrated full interoperability with a live network. It is an important milestone for Ericsson and the mobile industry. Ericsson looks forward to using our leadership in LTE technology to help our customers to move into a new era of communications, improving the user experience for their mobile broadband customers. The cooperation with Samsung has been successful and shows that LTE services soon will be ready for the market".

"We are excited to announce the first commercial LTE device that is fully compliant with the standard and compatible with live LTE networks," said Byungduck Cho, Executive Vice President of Research and Development Centre, Digital Media and Communications Business in Samsung Electronics. "This mobile device will take the user experience to the next level by offering users a full broadband Internet experience on a LTE infrastructure."

LTE enables better performance in peak data rates, spectrum efficiency and delay. LTE can be deployed both in new and existing frequency bands and minimizes the cost of network operation and maintenance.

The end-to-end connection was provided via LTE FDD technology, using Ericsson's live LTE network and the LTE device from Samsung.