Australian telecommunications and media company Telstra is all set to carry out trials of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, and has picked up Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks.

Telstra and NSN, a joint venture of Nokia, revealed in a statement on Thursday that testing the feasibility and technical capability of LTE technology in Australia would take a period of 3-6 months, starting from May.

Australia's largest phone company said in a statement, "Telstra will draw on three of the most prominent providers of the mobile technology industry for the tests, including its long standing network partner, Ericsson. Joining the testing ranks will be Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks".

Telstra and Ericsson upgraded the Next G mobile network earlier this year, offering peak network download speeds up to 42 Mbps, and became the world's first HSPA+ Dual Carrier network by doing so.

Jacqueline Hey, Chief Executive Officer of Ericsson for Australia and New Zealand, believes that the next stage in the development of 3G technology and a natural extension of HSPA and Next G network is LTE.

Huawei claims that an LTE service is capable of quadrupling the mobile speeds that are currently offered Down Under.