Ericsson and TeliaSonera have rolled out what they claim is the the first commercial long-term Evolution (LTE) site in Stockholm, Sweden.
The site will be part of a commercial network scheduled to go live in 2010.
LTE is the next generation of mobile phone technology, an enhancement of existing 3G, which will offer higher download speeds for services such as internet TV, mobile video blogging, on-line video games and the mobile office environment.
Ericsson has achieved a data rate of 160Mbit/s.
"The unveiling of this site shows that LTE is no longer the story of the future; it is the story of today," said Ulf Ewaldsson, v-p and head of product area radio at Ericsson.
In March, Ericsson raised the possibility of radically faster broadband connections by demonstrating that a data rate of 500Mbit/s is possible over copper twisted-pair cable.
The data rate, which is 20 times the speed of the fastest commercial service in the UK, was achieved using crosstalk cancellation techniques for standard DSL, which is known as "vectorised" VDSL2.
This could become a standard by the end of the year.
The importance of this data rate for operators is that it would open up the possibility of broadband services such as IPTV.
It also allows operators to deployment a combination of fibre and copper cables in the access network which will be more cost-effective for very high speed services such as HDTV.
Ericsson also said this high speed capability will also help faster rollout of 4G broadband mobile phone services using HSPA and LTE.