The Belgian provider Belgacom has announced to have started with the provision of services on its lte network. Companies have the possibility to have an lte subscription. Consumers follow when there is enough demand.
The telco said that if there is sufficient demand from customers and sufficient supply of mobile devices with support for the 4g technology to consumers in the long term a lte subscription, can shut down. With the introduction of the 4g network are able to only business customers get access to lte on the laptop, via a special usb modem. The Belgacom network works on the existing 1800MHz band. The telco was not known at what speeds its lte-a service. Belgacom began some time ago, all of its cell towers to make it suitable for both 3g as lte. The service is for the time being not nationally rolled out; only Hasselt, Mons, Waver and the industrial park of Haasrode get lte coverage.
Furthermore, Belgacom announced a partnership with Fon, a service where users of their wireless home network and can make available and in return be able to make use of wireless networks that others have made available. In the long term, Belgacom wants to be its customers a wireless modem to provide two access points. One of them is by the customer himself, while the other access point with others can be shared. Join the initiative means for customers that they, too, abroad on Fon networks can log in.
In the Netherlands the telecom providers KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile have also expressed their support for the network technology to lte. However, there is still no commercial lte network rolled out. When the first networks with the 4g technology in the Netherlands will be operational, is still unknown.