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Nokia Gets Record LTE 4G Connection in Tests
By Robert | January 9, 2008
Nokia recently announced a very impressive success in a real-world test of their 4G. We are talking about LTE (long-term evolution) wireless technology. Nokia performed this test in an urban area using the 2.6GHz spectrum, which was able to achieve peak download speeds of 173 Mbps, coming up more than previous controlled trials. As you can imagine this is quite impressive and the 3G Partnership Project that Nokia is a port of claims that the results actually confirm the fact that LTE can be a very good combination of scalability, bandwidth range and low power use that users are looking for in a 4G service.
A prototype base station was installed by Nokia at the top of the Heinrich Hertz Institute building in the middle of Berlin in order to test LTE. This is one location that shows interference and usually degrades bandwidth. The first test had many users connected to this new base station and gave the 173 Mbps credibility if considered a real world peak. Nokia also tested this LTE station with using terminals in vehicles that were 1 km away from the station. According to Matthias Reiss, Nokia can demonstrate that LTE actually meets the expectations users have for the new technology. To make it even better, the company also has proof that future LTE networks can function on an existing base station site and mobile phone operators can build LTE networks without having to get new antenna sites. If all this is true (and it most likely is), we might be witnessing the future of mobile phone networks in Nokia’s 4G LTE variation. All wireless vendors want to make the switch from 3G to 4G as easily as possible and we might have the solution here. Even Verizon announced that they want to join the LTE camp so we are dealing with constant rise when talking about support.
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