Huawei Technologies announced that it has been selected by TeliaSonera to expand and upgrade its GSM/HSPA+/LTE network throughout southern Norway. The enhanced network coverage will embrace Norway’s largest cities and areas of high population, including expansion of the existing 4G/LTE network in Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger.

TeliaSonera will implement Huawei’s SingleRAN Broad solution offering theoretical data speeds of 150 Mb/s. In addition, the 42 Mb/s HSPA+ network will be deployed and prepared for 84 Mb/s HSPA+. The project will start immediately and be finalized by the end of 2012.

“We are building a new world class mobile network in Norway with 2G, 3G and 4G access to offer our customers an enormous coverage and speed improvement. We have selected Huawei to deliver the southern part of the Norwegian network based on their high quality technology and competitive total solution,” said Claes Nycander, CTO and SVP of Mobility Services at TeliaSonera.

“Our expanded successful partnership with TeliaSonera on 4G/LTE demonstrates the flexibility of our SingleRAN Broad solution as one of the best ways for operators to address the key mobile broadband challenges of bandwidth, capacity and cost,” said Ying Weimin, President of LTE Product Line, and Huawei. “Huawei is committed to be the optimal MBB business partner for operators worldwide.”