23 December 2007

T-Mobile is the first mobile communications provider to present LTE technology live at CeBIT 2008!

Germany’s leading mobile communications provider is presenting attractive products and services, innovative equipment and forward-looking network technology at CeBIT 2008.

This year, the spotlight is on low-cost flat rates for telephony and mobile surfing, as well as the new, transparent “Good-Better-Best” system for rates and options.

T-Mobile is also presenting new handsets with outstanding design features and showcasing an NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Network) for the first time in Germany on the basis of LTE technology.

“This year, mobile communications is all about flat rates – and T-Mobile is setting an example with unlimited mobile telephony, surfing and e-mailing,” says Philipp Humm, Managing Board Chairman and Chief Sales Officer at T-Mobile Deutschland. “We are making our packages even more transparent and easier to understand with our new ‘Good-Better-Best’ logic. Everyone can find the rate best suited to their needs straight away – be they consumers or business customers, occasional or frequent telephone users, or e-mail or Internet buffs.”

Long Term Evolution (LTE), the technology expected to be used by the vast majority of wireless carriers to dish up next-gen wireless broadband, has been approved by the The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) - a key blessing needed for the race to market to begin.

Using HSDPA, T-Mobile is currently accelerating downlink speeds for mobile Internet use up to 7.2 Mbit/s. HSUPA currently provides uplink bandwidths of up to 1.4 Mbit/s. Yet this by no means exhausts the possibilities of mobile data transfer. T-Mobile is the first mobile communications provider to present LTE technology live at CeBIT 2008.

T-Mobile and Ericsson will team up to show that the forward-looking LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology makes much higher speeds possible.