LTE Advanced

LTE Advanced
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LTE Advanced is a mobile communication standard and a major enhancement of the Long Term
Evolution (LTE) standard. It was formally submitted as a candidate 4G system to ITU-T in late 2009
as meeting the requirements of the IMT-Advanced standard, and was standardized by the 3rd
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in March 2011 as 3GPP Release 10.[1]
Contents
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1 Background
2 Proposals
3 Timeframe and introduction of additional features
4 Technology demonstrations
5 Deployment
6 Devices
7 See also
8 Bibliography
9 References
10 External links
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10.1 Resources (white papers, technical papers, application notes)
Background[edit]
The LTE format was first proposed by NTT DoCoMo of Japan and has been adopted as the
international standard.[2] LTE standardization has matured to a state where changes in the
specification are limited to corrections and bug fixes. The first commercial services were launched
in Sweden and Norway in December 2009[3] followed by the United States and Japan in 2010. More
LTE networks were deployed globally during 2010 as a natural evolution of several 2G and 3G
systems, including Global system for mobile communications (GSM) and Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System (UMTS) (3GPP as well as3GPP2).
The work by 3GPP to define a 4G candidate radio interface technology started in Release 9 with the
study phase for LTE-Advanced. Being described as a3.9G (beyond 3G but pre-4G), the first release
of LTE did not meet the requirements for 4G (also called IMT Advanced as defined by
the International Telecommunication Union) such as peak data rates up to 1 Gb/s. The ITU has
invited the submission of candidate Radio Interface Technologies (RITs) following their requirements
in a circular letter, 3GPP Technical Report (TR) 36.913, "Requirements for Further Advancements
for E-UTRA (LTE-Advanced)."[4]These are based on ITU's requirements for 4G and on operators
own requirements for advanced LTE. Major technical considerations include the following:
Continual improvement to the LTE radio technology and architecture
Scenarios and performance requirements for working with legacy radio technologies
Backward compatibility of LTE-Advanced with LTE. An LTE terminal should be able to work in
an LTE-Advanced network and vice versa. Any exceptions will be considered by 3GPP.
Consideration of recent World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) decisions

regarding frequency bands to ensure that LTE-Advanced accommodates the geographically
available spectrum for channels above 20 MHz. Also, specifications must recognize those parts
of the world in which wideband channels are not available.
Likewise, 'WiMAX 2', 802.16m, has been approved by ITU as the IMT Advanced family. WiMAX 2 is
designed to be backward compatible with WiMAX 1 devices. Most vendors now support conversion
of 'pre-4G', pre-advanced versions and some support software upgrades of base station equipment
from 3G.
The mobile communication industry and standards organizations have therefore started work on 4G
access technologies, such as LTE Advanced. At a workshop in April 2008 in China, 3GPP agreed the
plans for work on Long Term Evolution (LTE).[5] A first set of specifications were approved in June
2008.[6]Besides the peak data rate 1 Gb/s as defined by the ITU-R, it also targets faster switching
between power states and improved performance at the cell edge. Detailed proposals are being
studied within the working groups.
Proposals[edit]
The target of 3GPP LTE Advanced is to reach and surpass the ITU requirements. LTE Advanced
should be compatible with first release LTE equipment, and should share frequency bands with first
release LTE. In the feasibility study for LTE Advanced, 3GPP determined that LTE Advanced would
meet the ITU-Rrequirements for 4G. The results of the study are published in 3GPP Technical
Report (TR) 36.912.[7]
One of the important LTE Advanced benefits is the ability to take advantage of advanced topology
networks; optimized heterogeneous networks with a mix of macrocells with low power nodes such
as picocells, femtocells and new relay nodes. The next significant performance leap in wireless
networks will come from making the most of topology, and brings the network closer to the user by
adding many of these low power nodes LTE Advanced further improves the capacity and
coverage, and ensures user fairness. LTE Advanced also introduces multicarrier to be able to use
ultra wide bandwidth, up to 100 MHz of spectrum supporting very high data rates.
In the research phase many proposals have been studied as candidates for LTE Advanced (LTE-A)
technologies. The proposals could roughly be categorized into: [8]
Support for relay node base stations
Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission and reception
UE Dual TX antenna solutions for SU-MIMO and diversity MIMO, commonly referred to as
2x2 MIMO
Scalable system bandwidth exceeding 20 MHz, up to 100 MHz
Carrier aggregation of contiguous and non-contiguous spectrum allocations
Local area optimization of air interface
Nomadic / Local Area network and mobility solutions
Flexible spectrum usage
Cognitive radio
Automatic and autonomous network configuration and operation
Support of autonomous network and device test, measurement tied to network management
and optimization
Enhanced precoding and forward error correction
Interference management and suppression
Asymmetric bandwidth assignment for FDD
Hybrid OFDMA and SC-FDMA in uplink
UL/DL inter eNB coordinated MIMO
SONs, Self Organizing Networks methodologies
Within the range of system development, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX 2, can use up to 8x8 MIMO
and 128 QAM in downlink direction. Example performance: 100 MHz aggregated bandwidth, LTEAdvanced provides almost 3.3 Gbit peak download rates per sector of the base station under ideal
conditions. Advanced network architectures combined with distributed and collaborative smart
antenna technologies provide several years road map of commercial enhancements.
A summary of a study carried out in 3GPP can be found in TR36.912. [9]
Timeframe and introduction of additional features[edit]

Original standardization work for LTE-Advanced was done as part of 3GPP Release 10, which was
frozen in April 2011. Trials were based on pre-release equipment. Major vendors support software
upgrades to later versions and ongoing improvements.
In order to improve the quality of service for users in hotspots and on cell edges, heterogenous
networks (HetNet) are formed of a mixture of macro-, pico- and femto base stations serving
corresponding-size areas. Frozen in December 2012, 3GPP Release 11[10] concentrates on better
support of HetNet. Coordinated Multi-Point operation (CoMP) is a key feature of Release 11 in order
to support such network structures. Whereas users located at a cell edge in homogenous networks
suffer from decreasing signal strength compounded by neighbor cell interference, CoMP is designed
to enable use of a neighboring cell to also transmit the same signal as the serving cell, enhancing
quality of service on the perimeter of a serving cell. In-device Co-existence (IDC) is another topic
addressed in Release 11. IDC features are designed to ameliorate disturbances within the user
equipment caused between LTE/LTE-A and the various other radio subsystems such as WiFi,
Bluetooth, and the GPS receiver. Further enhancements for MIMO such as 4x4 configuration for the
uplink were standardized.
The higher number of cells in HetNet results in user equipment changing the serving cell more
frequently when in motion. The ongoing work on LTE-Advanced [11] in Release 12, amongst other
areas, concentrates on addressing issues that come about when users move through HetNet, such
as frequent hand-overs between cells.
Technology demonstrations[edit]
Company
NTT DoCoMo
Country
Japan
Date
February
Note
[12]
The operator announced the completion of a 4G
Company
Country
Date
Note
trial where it achieved a

maximum packet transmission rate of approximately
2007
5 Gbit/s in the downlink

using 12 transmit and 12 receive antennas and
100 MHz frequency bandwidth to a mobile station
moving at 10 km/h.
[13]
Agilent
Technologies
Spain
February
2011
The vendor demonstrated at Mobile World
Congress the industry's first test solutions for LTEAdvanced

with both signal generation and signal
analysis solutions.
Ericsson
touch
Sweden
Lebanon
June 2011
April 2013
[14]
The vendor demonstrated LTE-Advanced in Kista.
[15]
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with Chinese
vendor Huawei and combined 800 MHz spectrum

and 1.8 GHz spectrum. touch achieved 250 Mbit/s.
[16]
A1
Austria
June 2013
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced
with Ericsson and NSN using 4x4 MIMO. A1

achieved 580 Mbit/s.
[17]
Turkcell
Telstra
Turkey
Australia
August
2013
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Istanbul with
Chinese vendor Huawei. Turkcell achieved 900

Mbit/s.
August
[18]
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with Swedish
2013
vendor Ericsson and combined 900 MHz spectrum
Company
Country
Date
Note
and 1.8 GHz spectrum.
[19]
SMART
Philippin
es
August
2013
vendor Huawei and combined 2.1GHz spectrum and

1.80GHz spectrum bands and achieves 200 Mbit/s.
[20]
SoftBank
Japan
Belarus
beCloud/MTS
September
2013
France
3.5 GHz spectrum band and achieved 770 Mbit/s.
October
[21]
2013
vendor Huawei.
October
2013
EE
Kingdom
November
2013
in Marseille and combined 800 MHz spectrum and

2.6 GHz spectrum. SFR achieved 174 Mbit/s.
[23]
United
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Tokyo with
Chinese vendor Huawei. Softbank used spectrum
[22]
SFR
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in London with
Chinese vendor Huawei and combined 20 MHz of

1.8 GHz spectrum
and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum. EE achieved 300
Mbit/s which is equal to category 6 LTE.
[24]
O2
German
y
November
2013
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Munich with
Chinese vendor Huawei and combined 10 MHz of

800 MHz spectrum
and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum. O2 achieved 225
Mbit/s.
Company
Country
Date
Note
[25]
SK Telecom
South
Korea
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced and combined
November
10 MHz of 850 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of
2013
1.8 GHz spectrum.

SK Telecom achieved 225 Mbit/s.
[26]
Vodafone
German
y
November
2013
in Dresden with Swedish vendor Ericsson and

combined 10 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and
20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum. Vodafone achieved
225 Mbit/s.
[27]
Australia
Telstra
December
2013
vendor Ericsson and combined 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz

spectrum and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum.
Telstra achieved 300 Mbit/s which is equal to
category 6 LTE.
[28]
Australia
Optus
The operator trialed TD-LTE-Advanced with
December
Chinese vendor Huawei and combined two 20 MHz
2013
channels of 2.3 GHz spectrum.

Optus achieved over 160 Mbit/s.
[29]
Unitel
Angola
January
2014
Swedish vendor Ericsson. Unitel combined 900 MHz

spectrum and 1.8 GHz spectrum.
[30]
Sunrise
Switzerla
nd
January
2014
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Luanda with
vendor Huawei. Commercial service is planned for

Q3 2014.
Company
Country
Date
Note
[31]
Australia
Telstra
January
2014
Advanced with American supplier Qualcomm on the

Telstra network.
[32]
Nokia
Spain
Networks
February
2014
The Swedish vendor Ericsson trialed LTE-
The vendor demonstrated at Mobile World
Congress 450 Mbit/s data speeds for individual

users by using LTE-Advanced.
[33]
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with American
supplier Broadcom and Finnish vendor Nokia

Finland
Elisa
February
Networks.
2014
Elisa combined 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum and

20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum. Elisa achieved 300
Mbit/s which is equal to category 6 LTE.
[34][35]
Deutsche
Telekom
German
y
February
in Alzey using 4x4 MIMO. Deutsche Telekom
2014

Commercial service is planned for summer 2014.
[36]
Vodafone
Italy
February
2014
combined 1.8 GHz spectrum and 2.6 GHz spectrum.

Vodafone achieved 253 Mbit/s.
[37]
Vodafone
Eta Devices
Spain
Spain
February
2014
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Naples and
in Barcelona using 4x4 MIMO. Vodafone achieved

580 Mbit/s.
February
[38]
The supplier demonstrated at the Mobile World
2014
Congress Envelope Tracking
Company
Country
Date
Note
Advanced (ETAdvanced) for LTE-A over 80 MHz

channels.
[39]
Base
Belgium
February
2014
Chinese vendor ZTE. Base achieved over 250

Mbit/s.
[40]
Orange
Spain
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Hasselt with
March
in Valencia and combined 10 MHz of 1.8 GHz
2014

Orange achieved 222 Mbit/s.
[41]
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Abu
Dhabi with French vendor Alcatel-Lucent.

Etisalat
UAE
April 2014
Etisalat combined 20 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and

20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum.
Etisalat achieved 300 Mbit/s which is equal to
category 6 LTE.
[42]
China Mobile
China
April 2014
in Chengdu with Chinese vendor Huawei.
[43]
Magyar
Telekom
Hungary
April 2014
The operator demonstrated LTE-Advanced
in Budapest with Swedish vendor Ericsson. Magyar

Telekom achieved 250 Mbit/s.
[44]
Huawei
The operator trialed TD-LTE-Advanced
China
April 2014
The Chinese vendor Huawei trialed LTE-Advanced
with Qualcomm. Huawei achieved 300 Mbit/s which

is equal to category 6 LTE.
Company
Country
Date
Note
[45]
Mobistar
Belgium
January
in Mechelen with Chinese vendor Huawei. Mobistar
2014 -
combined 10 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz
April 2014
of 1.8 GHz spectrum.

Mobistar achieved 213 Mbit/s.
[46]
Hrvatski
Telekom
Croatia
May 2014
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Varadin.
Hrvatski Telekom combined 10 MHz of 800 MHz

Hrvatski Telekom achieved 136 Mbit/s.
[47][48]
Telstra
Australia
May 2014

Telstra achieved 450 Mbit/s.
[49]
Orange
Spain
May 2014
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced again
in Valencia and combined 10 MHz of 1.8 GHz

Orange achieved 225 Mbit/s.
[50]
Telecom New
Zealand
New
Zealand
The operator trials LTE-Advanced in Auckland with
Chinese vendor Huawei.

May 2014
Telecom New Zealand combined 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz

spectrum and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum. Telecom
New Zealand achieved up to 260 Mbit/s.
LG U+
South
Korea
June 2014
[51]
vendor Huawei. LG U+ combined 10 MHz of

850 MHz spectrum,
Company
Country
Date
Note
10 MHz of 2.1 GHz spectrum and 20 MHz of

2.6 GHz spectrum. LG U+ achieved 300 Mbit/s which
is equal to category 6 LTE.
[52]
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced and combined
20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum and 20 MHz of

Elisa
Estonia
June 2014
2.6 GHz spectrum.

Elisa achieved 300 Mbit/s which is equal to category
6 LTE. Commercial service is planned in Tallinn for
the second half of 2014.
[53]
Vodafone
Portugal
June 2014
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced router
(Vodafone B4000) from Huawei (Huawei E5186).
[54]
in Amsterdam and combined 10 MHz of 800 MHz

Vodafone achieved 225 Mbit/s.
Vodafone
The
Netherlands
June 2014
Commercial service in ten cities, including

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The
Hague, Utrecht, Leiden, Eindhoven,Den
Bosch and Schiphol,
and reach another 50 medium and small cities is
planned around year-end.
[55]
O2
Telecom Italia
Czech
Republic
Italy
July 2014
The operator trials LTE-Advanced in the
southeastern part of Vysoina Region. O2 achieved

185 Mbit/s.
July 2014
[56]
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Turin with
Company
Country
Date
Note
Swedish vendor Ericsson, Chinese vendor Huawei

and Qualcomm.
Telecom Italia combined 1.8 GHz spectrum and
2.6 GHz spectrum.
O2
Czech
Republic
China
China
Telecom
August
[57]
The operator trials LTE-Advance in Prague.
[58]
The operator claims to demonstrated the world-
2014
September
first FDD-TDD carrier aggregation including a user
2014
device chipset with Nokia Networks. China Telecom

[59]
T-Com
Slovakia
The operator claims 300 Mbit/s in world's first
September
over-the-air trial for intraband contiguous Carrier
2014
Aggregation in B7/2600 MHz 20+20 MHz in field

environment.
[60]
SingTel
SK Telecom
Singapor October
e
2014
South
Korea
The operator demonstrated FDD-TDD carrier
aggregation with Ericsson. SingTel achieved 260

Mbit/s.
October
[61]
2014
Band Carrier aggregation with Ericsson.
October
Ooredoo
Maldives
Omnitel
Lithuania November
The operator demonstrated LTE-Advanced Tri-
[62]
The operator trialed LTE-Advanced.
[63]
The operator trials LTE-Advanced in Kaunas.
2014
Company
Country
Date
Note
2014
[64]
Polkomtel
Poland
November
2014

spectrum
and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum. Polkomtel
[65]
November
Ericsson
2014
Cosmote
Greece
Vodafone
Portugal
The Swedish vendor trialed LTE-Advanced with
American supplier Qualcomm and achieved 450

Mbit/s.
November
[66]
The operator trials LTE Advanced. Cosmote
2014
combines 800 MHz spectrum and 2.6 GHz spectrum.
November
[67]
2014
The operator trials LTE Advanced. Vodafone
Deployment[edit]
Oper
Count
ator
ry
Date
Note
[68]
Yota
Rus
sia
Februa
ry 2011
The operator launched the first-ever commercial mobile
implementation of the technology, at 11 of its base-stations around

Moscow.
However compatible handsets weren't available until the first-half of
2013.
Oper
Count
ator
ry
SK
Teleco
m
LG U+
Date
Sou
June
th Korea
2013
Sou
th Korea
Note
[69]
The operator announced to launch LTE-Advanced services.
[70]
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced network built by the
July
Swedish vendor Ericsson. LG U+ combine 850 MHz spectrum and
2013
2.1 GHz spectrum.

LG U+ provides up to 150 Mbit/s which is equal to category 4 LTE.
KT
Sou
th Korea
Septe
[71]
mber
1.8 GHz spectrum. KT provides up to 150 Mbit/s which is equal to
2013
category 4 LTE.
[72]
csl.
Hon
g Kong
Februa
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced network. KT uses
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced network built by the
Chinese vendor ZTE. csl. combines 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum
ry 2014 and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum.

CSL provides up to 300 Mbit/s which is equal to category 6 LTE.
[73]
MegaF
on
Rus
sia
Februa
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced network in Moscow, St.
Petersburg and Sochi built by the Chinese vendor Huawei.
ry 2014 MegaFon combine two 20 MHz channels of 2.6 GHz spectrum.

MegaFon provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
VIVA
Zain
Kuw
ait
Septe
mber
[74]
The operator announced to upgrade to LTE-Advanced.
[75]
The operator announced to roll out LTE-Advanced.
2013
Kuw
Novem
Oper
Count
ator
ry
Date
Note
ber
ait
2013
[76]
Unit
AT&T
ed
States
Safaric
om
Ken
ya
March
other markets.
2014
AT&T combined 700 MHz spectrum and 1.7 GHz spectrum. AT&T
achieved 110 Mbit/s
Decem
ber
2014
[77]
Sing May
apore
2014
The operator begun the rollout of LTE Advanced in the cities
of Nairobi and Mombasa , with speeds of up to 100Mbit/s.
[78]
SingTel
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced network in Chicago and
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced network. SingTel
combines 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz

spectrum.
SingTel provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
[79]
Swissc
om
Swit
zerland
June
2014
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced network. Swisscom

spectrum.
Swisscom provides up to 300 Mbit/s. A compatible device will be
available from autumn 2014.
[80]
Bouygu
es
Fra
nce
June
2014
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced network
in Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon and the Paris suburbs ofVanves, Issyles-Moulineaux, Malakoff and Rosny-sous-Bois.
Bouygues Telecom provides up to 220 Mbit/s. Two compatible
device from Huawei will be available from 1 July 2014.
Oper
Count
ator
ry
Date
Note
[81]
Orange
Fra
nce
June
2014
The operator announced to launch LTE-Advanced services in
July 2014. Commercial service is planned

inStrasbourg and Toulouse.
Followed by plans to cover all of France's large cities by the end of
the year.
[82]
TMobile
Telstra
Vodafo
ne
Cze
ch
Republic
July
Mobile combines 10 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of
2014
1.8 GHz spectrum.

T-Mobile provides up to 225 Mbit/s.
Aust July
ralia
[83]
The operator announced to launch LTE-Advanced in 2015.
[84]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in Karlovy Vary. Vodafone
2014
Cze
ch
Republic
The operator unveiled an LTE-Advanced in Mlada Boleslav. T-
July
2014
also combines 10 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of

1.800 MHz spectrum.
Vodafone provides up to 225 Mbit/s and expects in the future
maximum of 300 Mbit/s.
Orange
Fra
nce
Unit
EE
ed
Kingdom
Beeline
Rus
July
[85]
2014
Strasbourg and Toulouse.
July
[86]
[87]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in Moscow.
2014
August
The operator announced the roll out of LTE-Advanced in
Oper
Count
ator
ry
sia
SMART
BITE
EMT
Vodafo
ne
ppines
Lith
uania
Orange
August
nia
August
mania
The
Septe
mber
2014
Septe
Netherla
mber
nds
2014
Septe
Netherla
mber
nds
2014
Ro
mania
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in Mandaluyong.
[89]
The operator announced to roll out LTE-Advanced in early 2015.
[90]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in the area of Kiisa. EMT
2014
2014
Ro
[88]
2014
Esto August
The
KPN
Note
2014
Phili
Vodafo
ne
Date
Septe
mber
2014
provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
[91]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. Vodafone provides up to
300 Mbit/s.
[92][93]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. Vodafone combines
10 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum.
[93]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. KPN combines 10 MHz of
800 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum.
[94]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. Orange provides up to
300 Mbit/s.
Oper
Count
ator
ry
Optus
Aust
ralia
Kuw
Ooredo
o
Telkom
ait
Note
Septe
[95]
th Africa
mber
in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. Optus combines two
2014
20 MHz channels of 2.3 GHz spectrum.
Septe
mber
[96]
[97]
The operator announced to roll out LTE-Advanced in 2014.
[98]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in Barcelona and Madrid.
Septe
mber
2014
Spai Octobe
n
r 2014
Movistar provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
[99]
Vodafo
ne
The operator launched LTE-Advanced
2014
Sou
Movista
Date
Spai Octobe
n
r 2014
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in Madrid, Barcelona
and Valencia, with Seville, Bilbao, Mlaga,Zaragoza and A

Corua to follow in December 2014.
Vodafone combines 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum and 20 MHz of
2.6 GHz spectrum. Vodafone provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
[100]
Vodafo
ne
Unit
ed
Kingdom
The operator has started rolling out LTE-Advanced
Octobe
in London, Birmingham and Manchester.
r 2014
Vodafone combines 10 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of

2.6 GHz spectrum.
Oper
Count
ator
ry
Unit
EE
ed
Kingdom
Date
Note
Octobe
[101]
r 2014
end of October 2014.
[102]
Vodafo
ne
Port
ugal
The operator announced that LTE-Advanced will go live by the
The operator announced to launch LTE-Advanced services on
Octobe
30 October 2014.
r 2014
Vodafone combines 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum and 20 MHz of

2.6 GHz spectrum. Vodafone provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
[103]
SFR
Fra
nce
Octobe
r 2014
combines 10 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz

spectrum. SFR provides up to 225 Mbit/s.
[104]
Rogers
Can
ada
r 2014
Unit
EE
ed
Kingdom
Telstra
Octobe
Aust
ralia
r 2014
The operator launched LTE-Advanced
in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Windsor, London, Hamilton,Toro

nto, Kingston, Moncton, Fredericton, Saint John and Halifax.
[105]
Octobe
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in Toulouse. SFR
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in central London. EE

spectrum. EE provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
Novem
[106]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. Telstra combines 20 MHz
ber
of 700 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum. Telstra
2014
provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
Novem
TIM
Italy
ber
2014
[107]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced.
Oper
Count
ator
ry
LMT
Latv
ia
Vodafo
ne
A1
Si.mobil
Vodafo
ne
Tango
Note
Novem
ber
[108]
[109]
The operator announced to launch LTE-Advanced in Q1 2015.
Novem
[110]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. Telekom combines
ber
20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum.
2014
Telekom provides up to 300 Mbit/s.
Novem
[111]
ber
800 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum and provides
2014
up to 300 Mbit/s.
2014
Ger
many
Ger
Teleko
Date
many
Aust
ria
Slov
enia
Novem
ber
2014
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. A1 combines 20 MHz of
Novem
ber
[112]
Novem
[113]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. Vodafone combines
ber
1.8 GHz spectrum and 2.6 GHz spectrum and provides up to 225
2014
Mbit/s.
Decem
[114]
ber
of 800 MHz and 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz spectrum and provides up to
2014
225 Mbit/s.
2014
Italy
Lux
embourg
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. Tango combines 10 MHz
Oper
Count
ator
ry
M1
Sing
apore
Qat
Ooredo
o
ar
Date
Note
Decem
[115]
ber
1.8 GHz and 20 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum. M1 provides up to 300
2014
Mbit/s.
Decem
[116]
ber
800 MHz spectrum and 2.6 GHz spectrum and provides up to 225
2014
Mbit/s.
[117]
Vodafo
ne
Gre
ece
Februa
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. M1 combines 20 MHz of
The operator launched LTE-Advanced. Ooredoo combines
The operator launched commercially LTE Advanced. Vodafone
combines 800 MHz spectrum and 2.6 GHz spectrum and
ry 2015 1800 MHz spectrum, offering up to 225Mbps download and

50Mbit/s upload
[118][119][120]
The operator launched LTE-Advanced in select
communities in Canada. The company says that its maximum

Bell
Can
ada
Februa
download speeds of 220Mbps are some of the fastest in the world,
ry 2015 and use a combination of high-capacity Band 7 (2600Mhz)

spectrum and carrier aggregation between Band 4 (AWS) and
Band 2 (PCS) to reach those speeds.
NTT
DoCoM
o
[121]
Jap
an
March
2015
The operator launched LTE-Advanced, combining 1.7 GHz
spectrum and 800 MHz spectrum as well as 1.5 GHz spectrum and
2 GHz, offering up to 225Mbps.
Devices[edit]
Main article: List of devices with LTE Advanced
At the time of its launch in 2007, LTE-A didn't have compatibility with any Smartphone, but only with
a small amount of 4G LTE Routers. The first LTE-A capable mobile phone or tablet, wouldn't arrive
until late 2013. While no phone is capable of 1 Gbit/s+, there are phones that can reach 300 Mbit/s
to 500 Mbit/s under ideal conditions. Requirements are that the device must either have 3GB+
of RAM, a 32-bit Quad core/Octacore processor, and multiple 4G-LTE antennas or a 64bit Dualcore/Quad core processor with 1GB+ of RAM and at least two 4G-LTE antennas.
Manufacturer
Name
Max Download Speed
iPhone 6
150 Mbit/s
iPhone 6 Plus
150 Mbit/s
Motorola
Nexus 6
300 Mbit/s
HTC
HTC One M9
300 Mbit/s
Galaxy S6
450 Mbit/s
Galaxy S6 Edge
450 Mbit/s
Galaxy Note 4
300 Mbit/s on selected versions.
Galaxy Note Edge
300 Mbit/s
Galaxy Alpha
300 Mbit/s
Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE+
300 Mbit/s
Sony
Xperia Z3+/Z4
300 Mbit/s
LG
G Flex 2
450 Mbit/s
Apple
Samsung
Manufacturer
Huawei
Name
Max Download Speed
LG G3 Prime
300 Mbit/s
Ascend Mate 7
300 Mbit/s

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3 Timeframe and introduction of additional features

10.1 Resources (white papers, technical papers, application notes)

Continual improvement to the LTE radio technology and architecture

Consideration of recent World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) decisions

Support for relay node base stations

Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission and reception

Scalable system bandwidth exceeding 20 MHz, up to 100 MHz

Carrier aggregation of contiguous and non-contiguous spectrum allocations

Local area optimization of air interface

Nomadic / Local Area network and mobility solutions

Flexible spectrum usage

Automatic and autonomous network configuration and operation

Enhanced precoding and forward error correction

Interference management and suppression

Asymmetric bandwidth assignment for FDD

Hybrid OFDMA and SC-FDMA in uplink

UL/DL inter eNB coordinated MIMO

SONs, Self Organizing Networks methodologies

Timeframe and introduction of additional features[edit]

The operator announced the completion of a 4G

trial where it achieved a

5 Gbit/s in the downlink

The vendor demonstrated at Mobile World

Congress the industry's first test solutions for LTEAdvanced

The vendor demonstrated LTE-Advanced in Kista.

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with Chinese

vendor Huawei and combined 800 MHz spectrum

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced

with Ericsson and NSN using 4x4 MIMO. A1

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Istanbul with

Chinese vendor Huawei. Turkcell achieved 900

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with Swedish

vendor Ericsson and combined 900 MHz spectrum

and 1.8 GHz spectrum.

vendor Huawei and combined 2.1GHz spectrum and

3.5 GHz spectrum band and achieved 770 Mbit/s.

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with Chinese

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced

in Marseille and combined 800 MHz spectrum and

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Tokyo with

Chinese vendor Huawei. Softbank used spectrum

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with Chinese

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in London with

Chinese vendor Huawei and combined 20 MHz of

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Munich with

Chinese vendor Huawei and combined 10 MHz of

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced and combined

10 MHz of 850 MHz spectrum and 20 MHz of

1.8 GHz spectrum.

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced

in Dresden with Swedish vendor Ericsson and

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with Swedish

vendor Ericsson and combined 20 MHz of 1.8 GHz

The operator trialed TD-LTE-Advanced with

Chinese vendor Huawei and combined two 20 MHz

channels of 2.3 GHz spectrum.

Swedish vendor Ericsson. Unitel combined 900 MHz

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced in Luanda with

The operator trialed LTE-Advanced with Chinese

vendor Huawei. Commercial service is planned for

Advanced with American supplier Qualcomm on the