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Telenet Belgium Completes First FDD Massive MIMO Field Trial in Europe with ZTE

Telenet Belgium Completes First FDD Massive MIMO Field Trial in Europe with ZTE Image Credit: Telenet

Liberty Global owned Belgian operator, Telenet and Chinese telecoms vendor, ZTE announced the first FDD Massive MIMO field application in Europe.

The field application at Werchter, home of Rock Werchter music festival, used 20MHz of spectrum and 6 terminals to complete an 12-stream verification. It achieved an average single user speed of 120Mbps, 710Mbps peak cell speed, and improved spectrum efficiency by 3.3 times compared to traditional LTE base stations, said ZTE.

With the rapid growth of mobile broadband services, user data requirements have been increasing exponentially, but 4G spectrum limitations cause a bottleneck in network capacity improvement.

Telenet and ZTE have been in a long-term strategic partnership since 2016, and ZTE is the sole radio network vendor. Recently, ZTE has signed new agreement with Telenet that expands the partnership between the two companies to cover IoT and 5G.

The ZTE FDD Massive MIMO solution will meet more extensive demands for higher spectrum efficiency and pave a new way to 5G evolution for 4G operators all over the world, claims ZTE.

Wenhao Tang, VP, CTO of Europe and America Region, ZTE
ZTE is very proud to work with Telenet in realising Europe's first field application for FDD-LTE Massive MIMO technology. We believe that this solution can significantly improve Telenet network performance, delivering the best broadband experience to Telenet customers.

Micha Berger, CTO, Telenet
We're very excited that, with ZTE, we have completed the first FDD Massive MIMO trial in Europe, achieving the highest single cell throughput within the 20MHz spectrum. 

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