After conducting extensive testing of devices from various suppliers in the laboratory and in the field, AT&T choose to continue the cooperation with Ericsson to implement LTE. The agreement is also part of AT&T's strategy to continue to improve the speed and performance of mobile broadband technologies of 3G to deliver the best experience for customers by further evolution of GSM technology is the latest Next Generation Technology of LTE.

As part of the long-term agreement, Ericsson is extending its position as the most important supplier for AT&T to supply network devices from the Next Generation Technologies LTE and a series of services in design, deploy, and optimize the LTE network. AT&T plans to conduct field trials for the next generation technology from LTE at the end of this year and commercial implementation is scheduled to begin in 2011.

"This is an important stage of the broadband strategy for our future, ie with a focus to bring the best combination of speed, performance, and availability of devices for customers at every stage of technology implementation," said John Stankey, president and CEO of AT&T Operations. According to him, AT&T has an important advantage in the next generation of technology that LTE is an evolution of GSM technology to support our network and the majority of wireless infrastructure in the world today.

"Our ability to work together to meet market demands quickly become an important element in getting the trust from AT&T. We will work hard for the success of the launch of next-generation LTE and supports AT&T in business services and introduce new consumers into the future," said Hans Vestberg, president and CEO of Ericsson. AT&T formerly known as one of Ericsson's products and services supplier based access to the world's leading cable. Ericsson can offer cable-based solutions to accelerate the ability of AT&T in presenting new products and services based broadband to market.

Today, Ericsson has signed a commercial contract with LTE four leading operators in the world, two of which operators in the United States, LTE market the fastest growing in the world. Next generation technology from recent LTE mobile communication, allowing large data transfers very quickly, efficiently and cheaply through the optimization of the frequency spectrum. With increased speed and reduced latency, enabling customers to enjoy a variety of applications such as web in real time, online games, social media collaboration and video conferencing easily wherever and whenever located. LTE technology will meet the demands of Internet applications more advanced moves in the future.

Ericsson continued to encourage open standards and provide the greatest impact for the launch of LTE specifications. Ericsson hopes will hold 25 percent of important patents for LTE, which makes the largest patent holder in the industry. LTE is an evolution of network-generation advanced wireless technologies pioneered Ericsson with AT&T since two decades ago and is one of the main focus of the AT&T innovate and invest in broadband technology. AT&T serves more than 85.1 million subscribers and has seen the growth of broadband in the last three years. Smartphones just be one example of innovation resulting from investment in broadband technology.