Archive for the ‘LTE’ Category

Motorola has announced in a press release that it has completed a successful data transmission test on the 700 Mhz band in both laboratory conditions and outdoors utilizing its own LTE Radio Access Test Network and LTE eNode-B platform with a prototype LTE device.
This milestone brings the company closer to its goal of bringing LTE solutions [...]

In a speech delivered at the 4G Executive Summit yesterday, AT&T Mobility Vice-President of Network Architecture Hank Kafka stated that the carrier will depend on its HSPA network for mobile broadband for the foreseeable future while playing up the forthcoming upgrades to HSPA+ and the apparent advantages of its GSM based infrastructure while remaining confident [...]

T-Mobile and Nortel Networks have jointly announced that they have achieved a data rate of 170 Mbps on the downlink and 50Mbps upload at 41mph while traveling around the area of Bonn, Germany down a highway within range of three cellsites.
The German subsidiary of the international carrier has also made remarks to Reuters stating that [...]

In a press release on Thursday, Qualcomm has announced that it has achieved a simultaneous data call of 20Mbps by utilizing the currently sampling MDM8200 chipset solution.  The chipset solution, along with the further refinement of HSPA Release 7 which is also known as HSPA Evolved, is expected to hit a theoretical maximum downlink of [...]

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In a press release, Motorola has announced its intentions to manufacture and deploy LTE solutions that operate on the 700Mhz and 2.6 Ghz bands to accommodate carrier deployments in the U.S. and other territories around the world where 4G services are being developed around the 2.6 Ghz band.
The company also announced that it will [...]

In a conference call to investors regarding first-quarter results yesterday, the President and CEO of the regional carrier Scott Ford along with COO Jeff Fox announced that the company was in the initial stages of planning for an eventual transition to LTE, which he also emphasized would not happen for at least three to five [...]

Speaking at a communications conference hosted by noted investment banking firm Morgan Stanley today, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega has confirmed that the carrier plans to increase downstream 3G speeds by five times going into 2009, with rates exceeding 20Mbps.
This contradicts an earlier statement made by the Vice President of Architecture Frank Kafka [...]

Nokia has announced in a press release the intention to streamline the process for LTE standards patent licensing by building a simplified framework of aggregate fees and costs for the eventual licensing of patents and property related to the LTE standard between equipment manufacturers.
Other wireless equipment manufacturers have also joined Nokia in the effort and [...]

AT&T has announced in a press conference, reported by Engadget Mobile, that they will deploy their LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless infrastructure across the recently-acquired 700 MHz B Block as well as on the their 700 MHz spectrum recently purchased from private firm Aloha Partners.
The decision to proceed to LTE in the future is an [...]