According to GSA report, as of August 2011, 26 commercial LTE networks in 18 countries are already rolled out as below:
As of Aug. 2011, 237 operators in 85 countries are investing in LTE:
* 174 LTE network commitments in 64 countries
* 63 pre-commitment trials in 21 more countries
* 26 commercial LTE networks launched
* At least 93 LTE networks are expected to be in commercial service by end 2012
The following is from the 4G Americas whitepaper:
There are many different scenarios that operators will use to migrate from their current networks to future technologies such as LTE. Figure 10 presents various scenarios including operators who today are using CDMA2000, UMTS, GSM and WiMAX. For example, as shown in the first bar, a CMDA2000 operator in scenario A could defer LTE deployment to the longer term. In scenario B, in the medium term, the operator could deploy a combination of 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev A/B and LTE and, in the long term, could migrate EV-DO data traffic to LTE. In scenario C, a CDMA2000 operator with just 1xRTT could introduce LTE as a broadband service and, in the long term, could migrate 1xRTT users to LTE including voice service.
3GPP and 3GPP2 both have specified detailed migration options for current 3G systems (UMTS-HSPA and EV-DO) to LTE. Due to economies of scale for infrastructure and devices, 3GPP operators are likely to have a competitive cost advantage over Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) operators. One option for GSM operators that have not yet committed to UMTS, and do not have an immediate pressing need to do so, is to migrate directly from GSM/EDGE or Evolved EDGE to LTE with networks and devices supporting dual-mode GSM-EDGE/LTE operation.
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From the beggining of september 2011 in Poland Mobyland rollouts LTE (band 3), in summer 2011 Aero2 started their LTE network (TDD) in Poland
Less than two weeks ago, Bell Canada has also launched its LTE network.
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