Azerbaijan starts to plan frequencies for 4G launch

The Azerbaijani Communications and IT Ministry together with mobile operators started to plan frequency resources to launch 4G, the ministry told.

The ministry said that technical aspects are examined to prepare the infrastructure to launch 4G. At present, one of GSM operators (Azercell Telekom) has already appealed to the State Commission for Radio Frequencies to obtain frequency spectrum to deploy 4G services.

Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology was chosen as the basic technology of the fourth-generation technology.4G network capacity allows more comfortable work in the Internet (watch movies, download "heavy" content, etc.).

4G includes technology allowing to transmit data in cellular networks at a speed exceeding 100 Mbit /s for mobile users and 1 Gbit /s - for stationary users, which is ten times more than in 3G network.
 

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