Brief: Final LTE specifications approved by 3GPP

Posted by Will on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm under Uncategorized

3GPP approves final LTE specificationsFollowing on successful LTE trials in Finland (which broke downlink speeds of 173MBps recently), the 3GPP has approved the final set of specifications for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) data standard. LTE’s approval by the 3GPP puts the next-gen (4G) mobile broadband standard on track for its commercial roll-out in 2010.

As the evolution of HSPA networks, LTE will use Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) technology, the same protocol used in other technologies such as UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband) and mobile WiMAX.

Verizon wireless can now be assured of peak downstream speeds of 326Mbps and peak uplink speeds of 86Mbps, with each side requiring 20Mhz swath of spectrum. Round-trip latency of data packets (the time it take to request data and then recieve it) has been reduced to a mere 10ms.

Where’s AT&T in all this LTE-business? Come one, if the nation’s largest CDMA (EVDO) network embraces LTE, surely AT&T will be upgrading its GSM-based HSDPA network to LTE. Let’s just make it nice and official, AT&T - okay?

[Via: MobileTechNews]


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    • 3 Responses to “Brief: Final LTE specifications approved by 3GPP”

    • P. senthil kumar says:
      March 4th, 2008 at 4:12 am

      Hi
      I am interested in knowing the area of development required in the Enhanced/Evolved Node B(eNodeB)LTE. Is there any forum/groups in which one can subscribe for email
      with regards,
      senthil

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      March 26th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

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    • AT&T: 4G LTE network in 2012 says:
      April 5th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

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