Date: 10/04/2011

nTelos and Alcatel-Lucent complete field trial of end-to-end 4G LTE network

nTelos Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent have announced the successful completion of an end-to-end 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) field trial in Waynesboro, Virginia.

"This trial enables us to make informed decisions on how to smoothly evolve our network and incorporate 4G LTE into the existing infrastructure, particularly in terms of end-user performance, throughput, latency and Quality of Experience," said Bobby McAvoy, Senior Vice President, Wireless Engineering & Operations for nTelos Wireless. "We decided to team with Alcatel-Lucent on the trial because of our longstanding relationship and proven track record in the area of CDMA as well as their expertise and experience in LTE."

"The nTelos trial illustrates the broad range of 4G LTE adoption with service providers of all sizes throughout the U.S. We look forward to further demonstrating our technical leadership and transformation expertise to unleash LTE's full business potential to benefit nTelos customers," said Robert Vrij, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Americas Region. "We consider nTelos' selection of us to participate in the trial to be a strong endorsement of Alcatel-Lucent's innovation and forward-looking strategy in the area of mobile broadband solutions and efficient high-performance IP-based network."