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story category Motorola Demonstrates LTE In Barcelona
While T-Mobile aims at late 2011 LTE deployment
(old news - 04:14PM Wednesday Feb 18 2009)
tags: competition · business · wireless · alternatives · bandwidth · networking · T-Mobile US
Portions of Barcelona this week are decked out with LTE wireless broadband technology courtesy of Motorola, who is highlighting the technology to attendees of the Mobile World Congress. Our friend Mari Silbey blogs about the network, which was showcased to customers brave enough to get into a van with Motorola personnel. The accompanying video shows a UMTS-to-LTE handoff, as well as the viewing of high definition content via LTE. Riders in the van are also able to access the LTE network via Wi-Fi. Both AT&T and Verizon hope to deploy LTE over the next three to four years. T-Mobile is telling conference attendees they'll introduce 14.4 Mbit/s HSDPA this year, with LTE deployment sometime in 2011.

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baineschile
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Why

Will we need Fiber/coax in the near future, when wireless can get these speeds?
permalink · 2009-02-18 15:35:10 · Reply to this
KingofCola

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Re: Why

I will drop all land line connections once we hit that king of speed. OTA for HDTV, LTE for phone and WiFi router.
permalink · 2009-02-18 15:44:57 · Reply to this

Eat Me

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Sussex, NJ		 Yes. There is only so much wireless spectrum available. Fiber/coax has much more bandwidth available.
permalink · 2009-02-18 15:54:13 · Reply to this

jmn1207
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Re: Why

said by Eat Me See Profile :

Yes. There is only so much wireless spectrum available. Fiber/coax has much more bandwidth available.
True, but perhaps it would eventually make for a great "last mile" alternative for hard to reach areas?
permalink · 2009-02-18 17:03:19 · Reply to this

tiger72
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 for competition. LTE has the same issue that wifi and existing cellular has - it's a very shared medium, meaning that the trial and theoretical speeds will rarely, if ever be seen in the real world.

Fiber is still the most stable, upgradeable connection right now.

As for what i'll be doing in 2011 - if they're offering 4g in the city i'll be living in, you bet i'll be consdering my wireless company as my primary data provider soon.
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permalink · 2009-02-18 15:54:56 · Print · Reply to this

RARPSL

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Re: Why

said by tiger72 See Profile :

for competition. LTE has the same issue that wifi and existing cellular has - it's a very shared medium, meaning that the trial and theoretical speeds will rarely, if ever be seen in the real world.
It is also much more secure in the "Last Mile" (ie: The connection between the User and the Tower [in this case]) since your connection can be monitored by listening to the radio transmission unlike fiber which where you have to monitor the transfer by "wire tapping" or at the router.
permalink · 2009-02-18 16:27:08 · Print · Reply to this
patcat88

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said by baineschile See Profile :

Will we need Fiber/coax in the near future, when wireless can get these speeds?
Never. The airwaves are like the entire world running on 1 piece of coax.

There are interests more powerful than you. Like 1/3 the frequency space is used by the DOD, another 1/3 for state/local govt (police/fire), 1/5 for radio astronomy (**** these scientists), another 1/5 for radiolocation (we won't use GPS or anything digital till the day its forced into our cold dead hands), and another 1/5 for ground to space satellite communications. None of these users will give up their ancient analog systems, or give up their licenses if they aren't using them. Cellular/consumer level frequencies are microscopic compared to the special interest users. Any attempt to remove these frequencies will result in a visit from the CIA or deposed from your appointment or DOD holding a press conference on how your a soviet spy attempting to undermine national security.
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 Though wireless can achieve such speeds, nothing beats the reliability and stability of a wired connection, not to mention that wireless only has so much spectrum that you can use with it, and it is more prone to interference from other sources than say a fiber optic cable is.
permalink · 2009-02-18 20:25:02 · Reply to this

tiger72
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Go Go TMO!

Looks like TMO is very much positioning themselves aggressively for 4g. Their purchase of the AWS band gave them breathing room that makes 4g expansion a very logical, streamlined step.

Great news that TMO is still looking at 14mbps hspa, and keeping their eyes on the true prize: 4g.
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-United States Secretary of Defense (1961-1968) Robert S. McNamara
permalink · 2009-02-18 16:01:30 · Print · Reply to this

Eat Me

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Re: Go Go TMO!

Yeah but all of their new technology deployments are useless to me since they don't have much coverage in my area.
permalink · 2009-02-18 16:38:49 · Reply to this
majortom1029

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Lindenhurst, NY		 By the time Teammobile deploys lte att and verizon will be on the next step.
permalink · 2009-02-18 17:17:09 · Reply to this

tiger72
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Re: Go Go TMO!

in 2011? There is no next step. LTE is the Mecca. And that's why all of the carriers are dropping their old tech (bye-bye cdma and EVDO) and joining the GSM track for LTE.
permalink · 2009-02-19 10:54:41 · Reply to this
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