Zain Kuwait and Huawei jointly announced plans to launch a commercial LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network in Kuwait.

Progressively, Huawei is billed as one of the global leader in LTE technology innovation; because this company invests heavily in LTE-related research and development, with the final goal to stay ahead of the cutting edge in carrier technologies.

In Kuwait we witness a set of telecoms realities like:

·        Kuwait is experiencing high levels of market saturation in its telecom sector,

·        Zain is currently a leader in the field of mobile broadband with a market share of

around 39%

·        In Kuwait with nearly 10% of its mobile customers having already migrated to 4G LTE.

Based on this realities, Zain Kuwait, the telecommunications provider in Kuwait, in collaboration with technology partner Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, jointly announced plans to launch a commercial LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network in Kuwait.

Therefore, Zain’s next-generation wireless broadband network will eventually deliver speeds of up to 300 Mb/s, which is around twice the speed currently possible with existing LTE mobile networks.

Connectikpeople has also discovered that, the rollout will see Zain Kuwait and Huawei activate over 100 LTE-A cell sites during a first phase, with Zain Kuwait indicating that the technology will later be made available across the country as more sites become operational.

For those who unfamiliar, LTE-A expands and enhances standard LTE platforms, allowing flexible and effective spectrum utilization and simpler network architecture; it also empowers operators to provide better mobile services, high-performance applications and multimedia services like video conferencing, high-definition content sharing, high-speed video downloads and more.

The core technologies of the LTE-A platform that Huawei has deployed for Zain Kuwait include Carrier Aggregation (CA), which allows for full utilization of spectrum resources scattered across multiple frequency bands. Besides enabling high bandwidth, CA ensures backwards compatibility with LTE to facilitate a smooth and seamless migration.