Articles tagged with: Long Term Evolution

Wireless Industry Commits to Framework for LTE Technology Licensing

Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have jointly announced a mutual commitment to a framework for establishing predictable and more transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) that relate to 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Service Architecture Evolution standards (LTE/SAE). more

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TECH TALES: WiMAX is Still a Risky Investment

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- The next-generation wireless technology, known as WiMax, is full of potential to drive cheaper, high-speed wireless data, voice and video communications, or a dismal failure, depending on who you talk to. more

Motorola Demos First CDMA/EV-DO Rev-A to LTE Network Handoffs

Motorola has announced the first successful packet-switched network handoff between CDMA EV-DO Rev-A and Long Term Evolution (LTE) technologies in a demonstration with VoIP calls and streaming video. Motorola's handoff technique illustrates how service providers using CDMA-based networks today can smoothly integrate broadband OFDMA and IP packet-based wireless broadband technologies like LTE into their network. more

Related Tags: voip, core-network, alltel, lte, 3gpp, switches, ev-do, handover

Alcatel-Lucent and NEC announce a LTE Joint Venture

Alcatel-Lucent and NEC have announced plans to form a joint venture that will focus on the development of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband access solutions. These solutions will support the network evolution of leading customers around the world, such as NTT DoCoMo, who has already selected NEC as a vendor for commercial service deployment of its Super 3G (LTE) project, and Verizon, with whom Alcatel-Lucent has already initiated a LTE trial program. more

Related Tags: alcatel-lucent, docomo, lte, nec

Qualcomm Announces HSPA+ trials for this Year - LTE Support Next Year

Qualcomm has announced that multiple network operators have committed to trialing HSPA+ technology this year. To be conducted with operators including Hutchison 3G, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Telstra, the Company's HSPA+ trials bring the technology another step closer to commercialization. more

Juniper Networks Joins Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance

Juniper Networks has joined the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance, a global initiative made up of leading mobile operators to accelerate the delivery of the next generation of mobile broadband networks. more

Related Tags: juniper-networks, wimax,, ngmn-alliance

Ericsson Demonstrates LTE in both FDD and TDD Modes on Single Base Station

Ericsson says that it had demonstrated for the first time Long Term Evolution (LTE) in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode on the same base station platform. LTE is the only technology that can use the same platform for both paired and unpaired spectrum, thereby enabling large economies of scale for operators. more

Related Tags: datang, lte, mimo, 3gpp, tdd, downlink

Nokia Siemens Wins I-HSPA Contract in Slovenia

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced that it is supplying T-2 Slovenia, an existing IPTV and Internet service provider, with an Internet High Speed Packet Access (I-HSPA) flat architecture network. Also, with the current project, T-2 entered the mobile telecommunication market. more

Related Tags: mobile-data, wcdma, voip, hspa, 3gpp, ip-multimedia-subsystem, iptv, downlink, Slovenia

Nokia Siemens Testing Mobile Broadband with Speeds up to 173Mbit/s

Nokia Siemens Networks says that it has completed the world's first multi-user field trial in an urban environment using the new Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology that offers mobile data rates up to 173Mbit/s. more

Related Tags: mobile-data, wcdma, hspa, lte, edge, nokia-siemens-networks, mimo, 3gpp, battery

Growing Support for GSM/HSPA in 1700/2100 MHz Band

The trade group, 3G Americas has expressed confidence in the growing ecosystem of leading wireless technology manufacturers that will support UMTS/HSPA for the 1700/2100 MHz spectrum band. This band is known in the USA as the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) frequency band. Not only is this band important in the USA, but there is great potential for the continued allocation of 1700/2100 MHz spectrum throughout the Americas, with several auctions scheduled in 2008 in other countries in the region. more

Related Tags: mobile-wimax, 3gpp, 3g-americas, advanced-wireless-services, aws, USA