TeliaSonera have struck a deal with Samsung that will mostly make the European operator, the first ones to sell 4G/LTE modems. The modem (GT-B3710) is USB-based and will be available commercially in Sweden and Norway in 2010 with a promise of up to 10 times higher speed than available today.

The chip inside the LTE device provided by Samsung is known as Kalmia, which they’d developed to integrate in mobile devices. The modem supports 2.6GHz band and complies with the latest 3GPP standard.

Samsung announced that they have developed their first commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem meant for mobile devices. The modem complies with the 8th release of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard. Dubbed as Kalmia, the modem enables download speeds of up to 100Mbps and upload speed of 50Mbps, which is equivalent to streaming four HD movies simultaneously with no buffering or downloading a 800MB HD file in under a minute.

Samsung has confirmed to partner with LTE developers working on the 2010 launch and release different variety of LTE products like phones, MIDs etc.