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Addressing the ROI of LTE - Its Not About Killer Apps
Vish Nandlall, the CTO of Nortel spoke at the LTE World Summit about what he envisions as the way to ensure a return on investment for LTE. The market dynamics have ch…
China Mobile on Plans for TDD LTE
Bill Huang, the General Manager of China Mobile said it is already planning its 4G network and claims it is the most ready operator for LTE deployment. The operator is…
LG Electronics Develops the First Handset Modem Chip Based on LTE Standards
The modem chip can theoretically support wireless download speeds of 100Mbps and upload speeds of 50Mbps. This represents a significant step toward creating a market-ready 4G phon…
LSTI Trial Update at the LTE World Summit
The LSTI announced more members, some impressive results and the roadmap for 2009 at the LTE World Summit in London. Peak rates are the top speed of the system achiev…
Operators Not Sold on IMS for LTE Voice
UMTS kept voice essentially the same as with GSM networks, but what was wrong with CS voice for LTE? In 2004 when LTE started in 3GPP, several critical decision were m…
PicoChip Discloses Details of the Industry's First Complete LTE Basestation Reference Design
Designed in conjunction with picoChip's development and research partners, mimoOn and ASTRI, will enable high capacity wireless networks for enterprise, metropolitan, "hot-zone", …
Telefonica Studies Favour LTE
Jaime Lluch from Telefonica spoke at the LTE World Summit about its Plans for LTE The forecast for mobile traffic evolution 2008-2012 shows an increase of 5.2x in term…
Verizon Firms up Schedule for LTE
Even thought the global credit crunch continues to bite Verizon Wireless to the industry's surprise announced that is going to stick with its ambitious rollout timetable for LTE. …
Interview: NTT DoCoMo Reveals Roadmap From 3G to 3.9G
LTE is technology being standardized in the 3GPP and is based on "Super3G," which was proposed by NTT DoCoMo Inc. With the view to starting its commercial LTE service in or after …
Motorola Starts LTE Trials on Verizon Wireless Network
Motorola has started testing a LTE deployment in the USA with Verizon Wireless, according to Ray Owen, general director of Motorola Vietnam and Motorola's head of technology, Asia…
Nortel Demos LTE Handoff
Nortel Networks has moved its Long Term Evolution (LTE) trials out of the lab and into the field, claiming to have achieved the industry's first handoff between live cell sites du…
Starent Networks Joins the LSTI
Starent Networks, Corp. a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia services, today announced it has been selected to join th…
Telus Mulls Technology Upgrade
Telus Corp. continues to mull adopting new wireless technology that would allow it to sell some GSM-only devices such as Apple Inc.'s new iPhone, but CEO Darren Entwistle is givin…
Vendors Demo Fast Mobile Broadband of the Future
A "rolling thunder" campaign by telecoms equipment vendors to generate media and public interest around the next generation of mobile broadband, LTE, has reached New Zealand. …
Continuous Computing Launches First End-to-End Product Suite for LTE
Continuous Computing, the only company deploying uniquely architected systems comprised of telecom platforms and Trillium software, today announced the market's first comprehensiv…
China Mobile Trials LTE
China Mobile Communications Corp. wants to start testing its so-called 4G technology TD-LTE soon, and through its demands for the technology, …
Aircell Selects LTE as 4G Wireless Standard for Inflight Connectivity
Aircell, the first and only provider of air-to-ground inflight internet for commercial airlines announced its technology path for delivering next generation mobile broadband servi…
CDG Says LTE Focus Doesn't Rule Out WiMax
The CDMA Development Group is emphasizing LTE product development for 2009, but that doesn't mean the group sees WiMax as a lesser contender for 4G. In fact, Sarvesh Sharma, direc…
DoCoMo Demonstrates LTE System for 1st Time
NTT DoCoMo demonstrated a system supporting the LTE which it calls "Super3G," at Wireless Japan 2008. "We didn't transmit radio waves when we demonstrated the system …
LSTI Cross-Vendor Interoperability Testing Sets the Stage for Global Roaming on LTE Networks
The LTE SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI), has outlined plans for cross-vendor device to network interoperability testing of LTE. With this testing, LSTI is fostering the d…
LTE Femtocells Standardisation - Will it Meet the Cut Off Date?
Equipment vendors' focus on finalizing Long-Term Evolution LTE/SAE standards specifications by the end of 2008 has raised concerns that femtocell standards work, which also faces …
LTE Network Subscribers: From Zero to 32 Million in Three Years
Despite the fact that no LTE (Long Term Evolution) network is expected to be commercial before 2010, a new study from ABI Research forecasts that by 2013, there will be more than …
NEC Establishes LTE Demonstration Center
NEC Corporation announced today that it has established an LTE (Long Term Evolution) demonstration center at its Tamagawa offices (Kawasaki-city) for customers planning to install…
Softbank Prefers 'HSPA+' to LTE, Says VP
Softbank Mobile is planning to apply for a license to use the 1.5GHz band with the view to operating base stations supporting "3.9G" next-generation mobile communications system i…
LTE All Hype? No Says the LSTI
Ever since the some of the major operators and vendors came together to form the LSTI, the organisation has been shrouded in mystery. Once, if you typed the letters L…
Keep it Simple Stupid!
Unusually for a telecoms conference, at the LTE World Summit there was a relatively unknown Executive Director from the Structured Loans & Advisory Section from ABN AMRO Bank.…
LTE in Emerging Markets
It is clear to everyone in the industry that emerging markets are the fastest growing markets for mobile broadband. Due to the lack of fixed line broadband in many of these countr…
NTT DoCoMo's "Super 3G" Network - A 2009 Q4 Rollout?
All eyes are on NTT DoCoMo as recent press releases on how they achieved downlink speeds of 240Mbps during trials were hard to miss. Japanese data traffic is continuin…
NXP and the Soft Modem for LTE
Day 3 of the LTE World Summit, after all of the excitement, the announcements from operators that LTE is the technology for them, one may have thought that the day might be more s…
TeliaSonera Backs LTE
Scandinavian operator TeliaSonera announces imminent deployment of LTE It emerged at the LTE World Summit that TeliaSonera intends to deploy LTE in the next two years…
The LTE vs. HSPA+ Debate
Delegates at the LTE World Summit, appeared to have had enough of the LTE vs. WiMAX, but the LTE vs. HSPA+ or HSPA Evolved debate seemed to get people fired up. So wha…
Long Term Evolution - Not So Far Away
In around two years LTE technology should be commercially available and its backers say it will be cost and performance competitive with ADSL. Commercial availability …
Is it too late for LTE and WiMAX to converge behind a single standard?
After Arun Sarin's comments recently at the Mobile World Congress about LTE and WiMAX needing one single standard, ETSI's Adrian Scrase is sceptical about the possibility of stand…
Ericsson Press Release
Ericsson announced that it had demonstrated for the first time Long Term Evolution (LTE) in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode on the same ba…
There's no Free Lunch with IPR
Why Capping Aggregate IPR Charges for LTE is Bad for Innovation, Competition and Consumers By Keith Mallinson, Director, Wise Harbour, USA …
mimoOn First to Demonstrate End-2-End LTE SDR Solution
mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined radio (SDR) solutions for advanced wireless standards announced the implementation of an end-to-end LTE software solution that will signi…
NTT DoCoMo Achieves 250Mbps Downlink in LTE/Super 3G Field Experiment
NTT DoCoMo recently announced that it has recorded a downlink transmission rate of 250Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test of an experimental Super 3G system…
Motorola urges adoption of LTE over HSPA+
Motorola is advising operators to move directly to LTE and is downplaying the benefits of using HSPA+ as an interim technology. Addressing analysts in London, Stephane Daeuble, gl…
Verizon Press Release
Verizon Wireless Says Spectrum Additions From FCC's Auction 73 Will Further Company's LTE Strategy. Verizon Wireless said today that the spectrum…
Development ecosystem
As WCDMA deployments continue to expand worldwide, DSP and analogue technologies provider Texas Instruments (TI) says it is now looking beyond 3G to Long Term Evolution (LTE). <…
4G technology shaping up ahead of time
Although the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will not release an official definition of wireless 4G technology until 2008/2009, there are already clear contenders for the…
LTE backers complete test calls
Wireless broadband technology Long Term Evolution (LTE), moved a step closer to commercial reality on Thursday as Alcatel-Lucent and LG Electronics announced the completion of test c…
Verizon backing LTE
US CDMA carrier Verizon Wireless has announced that it is to embark upon a 4G LTE deployment plan in the US, with trials beginning in 2008. Vendors involved in the trial include Alca…
Nokia Siemens completes urban trial of LTE
Finnish - German joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, said this week that it has completed the world's first multi-user field trial of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in an ur…
MIMO, LTE and WiMAX testing
Test and measurement specialist Rohde & Schwarz promises a comprehensive product portfolio on show at the Mobile World Congress 2008. It includes two one-box solutions for genera…
Agilent Technologies Demonstrates its Commitment to Innovative 3G LTE Measurement Solutions at 3GSM 2007
BARCELONA, Spain, 3GSM, Booth D45, Feb. 12, 2007 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will demonstrate measurement solutions that address 3G Long Term Evolution …
Sprint-Nextel to test LTE TDD
US carrier Sprint Nextel announced that it would be the first operator to test the capabilities of a new version of IPWireless' UMTS-TDD mobile broadband system. The new network clai…
LTE testing
Provider of communications solutions Anritsu has announced a series of new software packages supporting the measurement of 3GPP LTE mobile terminals. The three new packages -…