Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Ericsson lights up LTE site -- Long-Term Evolution -- InformationWeek

May 26, 2009

Ericsson and TeliaSonera have flipped the switch on the world's first commercial Long Term Evolution cell site in Stockholm, Sweden.

The site will be part of a full-scale deployment that's scheduled for next year, and it's a milestone for the next generation of mobile broadband. LTE networks have shown a peak performance of 160 Mbps, which could enable a host of new mobile services like high-definition video streaming, Internet television, and mobile video blogging. While the average speeds likely will be lower, LTE networks still blow away modern 3G networks, which generally top out at about 7.2 Mbps...