Honest 836 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 LG's LTE Test Brings 4G Closer The chip has a 60Mbps speed While we still (patiently) await the arrival of 3G here in India, the Koreans are busy with plans of moving away from 3G already. You might have already heard of 4G that is touted to be the next big thing. In a significant push for 4G technology, Korean telecommunications major LG has managed to successfully test the first working Long Term Evolution (LTE) chip. LTE happens to be the successor to the current GSM/UMTS technology. While people using 3G are already experiencing blazing speeds while surfing the internet using their phones, LTE aims to up the ante even further. The just tested LTE chip exhibited insane downlink and uplink speeds of 60Mbps and 20Mbps respectively. That is way faster than the fastest connections we have here in India! Even in Korea and Japan, where they have some of the fastest connections you can ever come across, the new technology could pose a threat to existing wired broadband providers. Now, if 60Mbps sounded insane, here's more. Apparently, the chips are capable of handling even higher speeds. How does 1Gbps on your mobile phone sound? Breathtaking! It is almost certain that by the time we have a robust 3G network up and running here, the rest of the world would have switched to 4G. Sigh! Courtesy : Techtree Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 LG Reveals First LTE Chip for Mobiles LG has announced that it has independently developed the first handset (user equipment) modem chip based on 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology standards. The modem chip can theoretically support wireless download speeds of 100Mbps (megabits per second) and upload speeds of 50Mbps. This represents a significant step toward creating a market-ready 4G phone. LG demonstrated the chip at its Mobile Communication Technology Research Lab in Anyang, Korea, achieving wireless download speeds of 60 Mbps and upload speeds of 20 Mbps. The fastest phones currently on the market use HSDPA technology and download at a maximum speed of 7.6 Mbps. With LTE technology, users can download a 700 MB movie file in less than one minute at speeds of 100 Mbps. LTE technology would also allow consumers to simultaneously stream four HD movies without any buffering. For the past three years, LG has been pursuing 3GPP LTE standardization, working to develop and test commercially viable LTE technology with an R&D staff of approximately 250. The result is a 13mm by 13mm modem chip for the next generation of slim handsets. For its demonstration, LG used a test terminal running Windows Mobile to play back high quality, on-demand video. In addition to this handset modem, LG is also developing the first preliminary LTE-based data card, which can replace the wireless cards currently used in computers. “Now that LG has developed and tested the first 4G handset modem, a commercially viable LTE handset is on the horizon,” said Dr. Woo Hyun Paik, CTO of LG Electronics. “This latest breakthrough gives us a strong technology advantage that we will use to bolster our industry leadership.” Most of the major mobile operators are pursuing LTE-based 4G technology. Because it is based on the existing WCDMA technology evolutionary path, 85 percent of WCDMA service-provided carriers will be able to upgrade their networks to LTE with far less cost than building a new network based on a different technology. According to market research company Strategy Analytics, the global LTE handset market will double from 70 million sales units in 2012 to 150 million sales units by 2013. Mobile phone carriers have now built LTE test networks and are currently working on early stage handsets. The first LTE mobile phones will likely reach the market in 2010. Courtesy : Tech2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted December 11, 2008 4G Coming in 2009! Verizon CTO heard saying LTE technology to be up and running by "this time next year" The just demoed LTE technology seems to be hot and happening with folks at Verizon who are sounding upbeat about implementing it very soon. Verizon's chief technology officer **** Lynch was overheard saying that he expects LTE technology to be up and running by "this time next year". The comment came during an informal meet with reporters covering Cisco's C-scape conference held earlier this week, according to Ars Technica. Mass deployment of LTE networks was not a priority until now for most wireless carriers owing to the fact that consumers were still unhappy with the existing 3G coverage. A jump to an entirely new platform, especially after investing lot of dough building up the existing 3G infrastructure might have not made sense. However, that sentiment seems to be weakening by the day. While carriers themselves had predicted an expected 2010 to 2012 deployment of LTE, the pace seems to have gotten much faster. Additionally, with constant improvements with LTE chips it is possible that you will see LTE networks seeing the light of the day sooner than you expected. As for India, we do have some happy news in the form of the 3G launch which finally happened at Delhi with MTNL offering users an initial look at the service. For the uninitiated, LTE is unofficially termed a 4G technology! Courtesy : Techtree Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
