Uruguayan state-owned fixed and mobile operator Antel, in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, has commercially launched its LTE mobile network. The network has been designed and built based on Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE platform. Antel’s subscribers can now access HD video, high-speed mobile data, videoconferencing, online gaming and other applications.

Antel’s LTE services will initially be available in Montevideo and Punta del Este, to be gradually expanded across the country. For this project Alcatel-Lucent provided LTE base stations (eNodeBs), the IP wireless Evolved Packet Core, as well as operations and maintenance services. Antel will also be leveraging Alcatel-Lucent’s IP portfolio of products for backhaul of the mobile traffic.