Huawei will construct the first commercial LTE network in Southeast Asia

Huawei has announced a five-year contract to provide LTE-solutions "turnkey" Singapore's M1 Limited. The contract includes the installation of the macro base stations, base stations and distributed the updated packet core network (EPC) for next-generation network M1. The sum of the five-year contract was $ 280 million.

LTE technology supports data rates up to 300 Mbps for downlink, which is especially convenient for the effective transfer of data traffic. The new M1 network can realize various multimedia applications such as videoconferencing, high definition content, downloading video and update social networks at high speed. All this, from the words of Huawei, will significantly improve the perception of mobile broadband subscribers M1.

Completion of the network LTE M1 in the first quarter of 2012.