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10 Things You Need to Know About LTE

Stacey Higginbotham | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | 10:00 PM PT | 16 comments

Since everybody likes lists, here are the 10 things you need to know about the 4G technology known as
Long-Term Evolution, or LTE, standard.

z It began in 2004 as the next-generation networking technology pushed by the 3GPP

z It’s fast — with peak data rates of 1o0 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up

z It makes CDMA and GSM debates moot

z It offers both FDD and TDD duplexing, which means the upload and download speeds don’t have to
be synchronous, so operators can better optimize their networks to use more upload channels

z It won’t be deployed until 2010 or so

z Verizon is testing it with Motorola equipment, and AT&T has backed it too

z LTE will have lower latency, which makes real-time interaction on high band-width applications using
mobiles possible

z It competes against WiMax, and some want to subsume WiMax into it

z China Mobile is testing it, which means China may skip 3G networks altogether

z While it will make mobile data faster, it may not bolster sales of networking gear

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