Huawei and TeliaSonera/Netcom have announced the world’s first mobile broadband Internet connection over a live commercial LTE network in Oslo, Norway.
The first showcase on the live LTE network in Oslo, between a Laptop PC with a 4G modem and public Internet/Intranet included downloading of high resolution photos, music, movies and mobile business applications, at a speed much quicker than most available fixed internet accesses of today.
By adopting the LTE MIMO and OFDM technologies (Multiple Input Multiple Output and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, key radio technologies of LTE), the download peak data rate can reach 150 Mbps in one LTE cell with multiple terminals.
150Mbps?! Yes please! I’ll have two! No, seriously though, these ongoing announcements for LTE just serve to reinforce the fact that it’s going to be the 4G technology of choice. We’ve just got to wait for a few years now for the networks to be built out, and the wireless stacks to make it in to common devices. Oooh, what a long wait though!