MTS launches 4G mobile network in Armenia

The K-Telecom Armenian mobile operator (brand Vivacell-MTS), a
subsidiary of Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile Tele Systems
(MTS), is the first to receive frequencies for fourth-generation
network construction, the LTE standard in Armenia, RIA Novosti
reports, referring to the MTS.

The operator plans to launch a special test zone for the LTE in
central Yerevan by the 1st of December 2010. The test zone will help
to determine actual available reception speeds of the LTE network, the
network’s functioning, the stability of the handover (the transition
from the area of one operator’s coverage to another without losing
connection), as well as other parameters necessary for the effective
commercial full-scale network launch in February-March of 2011.
The LTE is a technology of cellular networks, the fourth (4G) and next
generation of mobile broadband services.

Armenia will become the second country in which the MTS implements LTE
networking. In July 2010, MTS became the first telecom operator to
have launched a commercial 4G network operation in Uzbekistan.