Sonera to launch LTE in Finland by year end

Finnish operator Sonera will launch LTE services by the end of the year. The operator has announced that services will first be launched in the city of Turku, before being expanded to Helsinki, which are also the two cities where Sonera has been conducting trials since June 2010.

Sonera can use both the 1800 and 2600MHz bands for LTE, although there aren’t any LTE1800 devices available in the market. Sonera expects dual-band devices to be available by the spring of 2011.