GNG News Guy
11-29-2007, 08:16 AM
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At the moment, there's three front-runners for the fourth-generation wireless broadband crown: 3GPP LTE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution) (Long Term Evolution), mobile WiMax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX) and 3GPP2 UMB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Mobile_Broadband) (Ultra Mobile Broadband). All three standards will offer low latency and theoretical max speeds that will eventually make current U.S. EVDO and HSDPA speeds (and even some home landline connections) seem anemic, but LTE is leading the 4G push.
Sprint, of course, is hitching their wagon to Mobile WiMax under the Xohm (http://www.xohm.com/) name. AT&T has said they're planning on migrating toward LTE (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/84930). Verizon Wireless had hinted they were veering toward LTE as well, the same standard being eyed by GSM/HSPA partner Vodafone. Today Verizon made the decision official (http://news.vzw.com/news/2007/11/pr2007-11-29.html), a company spokesman telling us that trials will begin next year.Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE Long Term Evolution the technology developed within the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization. The selection of LTE provides Verizon and Vodafone joint owners of U.S.-based Verizon Wireless with a unique opportunity to adopt a common access platform with true global scale and compatibility with existing technologies of both companies.
LTE is theoretically capable of speeds up to 100Mbps with latency as low as 20ms, and the switch will mean a migration from CDMA to GSM. However, you likely won't be seeing this technology in the wild until around 2010 or later, and likely at speeds nowhere near 100Mbps at first.
At the moment, there's three front-runners for the fourth-generation wireless broadband crown: 3GPP LTE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution) (Long Term Evolution), mobile WiMax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX) and 3GPP2 UMB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Mobile_Broadband) (Ultra Mobile Broadband). All three standards will offer low latency and theoretical max speeds that will eventually make current U.S. EVDO and HSDPA speeds (and even some home landline connections) seem anemic, but LTE is leading the 4G push.
Sprint, of course, is hitching their wagon to Mobile WiMax under the Xohm (http://www.xohm.com/) name. AT&T has said they're planning on migrating toward LTE (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/84930). Verizon Wireless had hinted they were veering toward LTE as well, the same standard being eyed by GSM/HSPA partner Vodafone. Today Verizon made the decision official (http://news.vzw.com/news/2007/11/pr2007-11-29.html), a company spokesman telling us that trials will begin next year.Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE Long Term Evolution the technology developed within the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization. The selection of LTE provides Verizon and Vodafone joint owners of U.S.-based Verizon Wireless with a unique opportunity to adopt a common access platform with true global scale and compatibility with existing technologies of both companies.
LTE is theoretically capable of speeds up to 100Mbps with latency as low as 20ms, and the switch will mean a migration from CDMA to GSM. However, you likely won't be seeing this technology in the wild until around 2010 or later, and likely at speeds nowhere near 100Mbps at first.