Regional carriers — which historically haven’t had the highest-tech networks around — have been surprisingly quick to support LTE (heck, MetroPCS remains the only US carrier with a live network), and now it’s little Cellular South jumping on the bandwagon. Samsung sent out a press release a few days ago touting a new partnership to help Cellular South in its grand endeavor, supplying both infrastructure equipment and two LTE-compatible phones for a launch in 2011 with expanded availability in 2012 in the carrier’s 700MHz spectrum. Interestingly, the companies have also committed to launch voice over LTE next year, meaning Cellular South will no longer need to rely on its legacy 3G network for phone calls — that’s something that Big Red won’t be doing initially when its network goes live next month, though it’s not clear what standard Cellular South will be using for the deployment. Follow the break for the full press release.
Cellular South hooks up with Samsung for LTE network, two LTE-enabled phones next year originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Chris Ziegler
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