Huawei Technologies will serve as technology partner for Australia’s LTE trials aiming to reach downlink speeds of 150 mbps as the operator aims to offer advanced services to be delivered over the LTE network.

 As part of the arrangement, Huawei will provide the entire end-to-end LTE/SAE solution for field and lab trials including macro base stations, distributed base stations and SAE core network. The LTE trial, which will be located in Victoria, is expected to begin in May and will run for three to six months.

“This is a great opportunity for Huawei to showcase its next-generation LTE solution in Australia,” said Huawei Australia CTO Peter Rossi. “Australians are some of the most data-hungry mobile users in the world, and in coming years LTE will be able to offer mobile data speeds comparable to the fixed-line broadband speeds available today. Huawei is committed to introducing world-class LTE/SAE technologies in Australia to meet the increasing mobile broadband demands of Telstra’s users.”