LTE pioneer TeliaSonera has switched on its latest LTE network in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-largest city. The launch is TeliaSonera’s third live LTE market in Sweden after earlier launches in Stockholm, the capital, and Visby, a city on the Swedish island of Gotland. It also has LTE networks live in Norway, Finland and Uzbekistan (the latter via its UCell subsidiary). The latest launch was announced by TeliaSonera’s main LTE vendor, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), which said in a press release that the new network had recorded average download speeds of 85-90Mb/s and a peak of 100Mb/s in pre-launch tests. 30Mb/s was measured in the uplink. NSN is supplying its Flexi Multiradio Base Stations for the new network as part of an existing two-year contract.

The Gothenburg launch is part of an ongoing plan by TeliaSonera to eventually rollout LTE to 25 Swedish cities before year-end. It also plans to launch in a further four cities in Norway – following its earlier launch in Oslo – and also has a LTE network in place in the Finnish city of Turku. It is expected to follow these launches with similar deployments in Denmark, and in the Baltic region where it has subsidiaries in Estonia (EMT), Lithuania (Omnitel) and Latvia (LMT). Click here to read our recent analysis on TeliaSonera’s LTE rollout.