LTE Speeds Faster Than Expected in Telstra and Optus Trials

1.2Gps LTE Wireless Breakthough Attracts Opposition Attention

By David Richards | Sunday | 22/08/2010

As both Telstra and Optus trial LTE Wireless technology, network gear manufacturer Huawei has announced a 1.2 Gbps mobile broadband speed breakthrough using LTE technology. The news comes as NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley brags that the Labour proposed NBN will be capable of delivering 1Gbps over fibre.

As both Telstra and Optus trial LTE Wireless technology, network gear manufacturer Huawei has announced a 1.2 Gbps mobile broadband speed breakthrough using LTE technology. The news comes as NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley brags that the Labour proposed NBN will be capable of delivering 1Gbps over fibre. 

Using a single RAN prototype LTE advanced 80MHz wideband radio with CA, MIMO, CoMP Huawei was able to produce extremely fast speeds with low latency.

At a recent Telstra briefing chief operations Officer Michael Rocca told ChannelNews that Telstra's LTE trials were well advanced and depending on spectrum availability the Company was confident of being able to deliver 100Mbps over the Telstra LTE network.

Currently Optus is testing LTD in the Sydney suburb of Pymble.  

Rocca said the Telstra's LTE technology will boost its Next G network wireless speeds up to 172Mbps.

In the USA Seattle police are trialling LTE technology that will if implemented allow them to stream live video back and forth between headquarters and a vehicle on the road. In Australia video shot via a police car is currently stored in the vehicle until it returns to base.

Currently Labor is proposing that $43 Billion is spent on a 100 Gps fibre to the home network while the opposition is proposing an investment of $6.5 Billion into a Wireless based broadband network.

LTE Speeds Faster Than Expected in Verizon Trials - PCWorld Business Center:

Verizon's LTE field trials in Boston and Seattle have shown downlink average rates of 5 to 12 Mbit/sec and of 2 to 5 Mbit/sec, which will give mobile customers browsing speeds comparable to a typical wired home Internet experience, the company said.

In January, Verizon had said it expected that LTE, also known as 4G, would increase user speeds over existing 3G networks by 10 times, and up to 6 Mbit/sec. on the downlink.

The LTE field trial speeds are "faster than we've ever suggested. Our network team is shocked," said Jeffrey Nelson, a Verizon spokesman, in a telephone interview.

Verizon launched field trials in Boston and Seattle in August.

The company said today that it is on track to deliver LTE capabilities to 25 to 30 markets and roughly 100 million people by year's end. Verizon has not named any of the other trial markets."Nelson said the tests are valuable to LTE application and device makers, and should be valuable to end users a well. 'Early adopters are looking at our leadership here -- developers but also end users and enterprises that understand the value of this speed,' Nelson said.

In January, Verizon demonstrated applications such as live videoconferencing over LTE using portable units from Creative Labs, as well as video streaming of a movie in 1080p over LTE at 4 Mbit/sec to a small handheld tablet from Motorola r unning an Nvidiasecond-generation Tegra processor. Nelson said both applications are still under testing and development.

LTE applications for industry are also under development at Ericsson.

Enterprises will use LTE for its ability to push many applications at once wirelessly, for video transmissions and for its ability to bring data wirelessly through buildings that now block 3G signals, Nelson said.

'LTE at these speeds doesn't just capture the imagination, but it also captures wallets,' Nelson said."