He said two years from now 3G devices will still dominate, noting it will take five years for significant numbers to be available. But once out there, "we'll see more LTE devices than we ever saw with 3G because the market is now unified."
CSL CTO Christian Daignaeult, who wouldn't confirm when the Hong Kong cellco would move to LTE but suggested it would be later in the year, said there would be no voice for two years. And when it was available it would likely fall back to the 3G network.
There’s little doubt Telstra-owned CSL wants to be first in Hong Kong after chalking up a number of firsts over the past 18 months and who sees the network as a key differentiator.
The lessons from the first LTE commercial rollouts should perhaps be focused not just on consumer satisfaction – what's there not to like about 40-50 Mbps access via a dongle – but on successes in monetizing the network investment.
Shareholders will like that more than being "first with 4G in Sweden."