Ericsson is conducting LTE trials in Dublin and have achieved speeds up to 80MBits/sec, reports  Irish Times. Test was conducted in 2.3 GHz band.

Ericsson is conducting LTE trials in Dublin and have achieved speeds up to 80MBits/sec, reports  Irish Times. Test was conducted in 2.3 GHz band.

Last week’s trial was conducted using a base station at Ericsson’s Clonskeagh offices and a receiver on the nearby UCD campus. A large black box in the boot of the taxi hired for the trials was used to receive the signals but the Ericsson engineers point out this will become a USB dongle in commercial deployment.

Key parts of the infrastructure for the trial were located at Ericsson offices in Gothenburg and Madrid. Ericsson’s Athlone facility, the first RD lab it established outside of Sweden, was also involved. Although the signal dropped repeatedly in the demonstration seen by The Irish Times, download speeds of 80MBits/sec were repeatedly achieved.

Recently Ericsson Research won an award for the best contribution to LTE standards at the Informa LTE Awards 2010.

Earlier this year in march Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Ericsson demonstrated  42Mbps speed during LTE trial.

TeliaSonera launched the world’s first and largest commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) service in Stockholm last year in December. Ericsson had provided TeliaSonera with an LTE system (4G), including LTE radio base stations, which are part of the new RBS6000 series, an Evolved Packet Core network, a mobile backhaul solution including SmartEdge 1200 routers, the latest EDA multi-access aggregation switch and an operation and management system.

See Irish Times report for more details.