Motorola Demonstrates LTE In Barcelona While T-Mobile aims at late 2011 LTE deployment 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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  baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
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Sterling Heights, MI | Why Will we need Fiber/coax in the near future, when wireless can get these speeds? | |
|  | | | 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. | |
| | | | Yes. There is only so much wireless spectrum available. Fiber/coax has much more bandwidth available. | |
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Reston, VA | Re: Why said by fifty nine: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? | |
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Suffern, NY | Re: Why said by tiger72: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. | |
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kudos:1 | said by baineschile: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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| 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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| | | | 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. | |
| | | | By the time Teammobile deploys lte att and verizon will be on the next step. | |
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kudos:1 | 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. | |
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