LTE wireless and mobile testing vehicles

Bonn, Germany (Reuters) – Mobile operator T-Mobile and Nortel Networks have <NT.TO> successfully tested a new high-speed wireless technology designed to make mobile connections as fast as fiber-optic connection fixed, said, T-Mobile.

Connecting traffic in a car in a field of three cell sites on the street in Bonn, Germany, with an average speed of 67 km / h, T-Mobile, the mobile business of Deutsche Telekom <DTEGn. DE>, said on Thursday.

The experiment has achieved data transfer rates of up to 170 Mbps network, and up to 50 Mbps to load, the operator said, about three times faster than a new high-speed broadband technology, VDSL is the provision across the country.

If the long-term evolution (LTE) showed the most promising technologies in everyday situations, Bonn, the company modernized its network, lobsters, said Philippe, head of T-Mobile Germany. The decision will be taken within six months.

There is increasing urgency of the fourth generation (4G) wireless networks, where growing demand for mobile data using tools such as smart phones and laptop computers Embedded.

The industry has not yet developed a standard for network 4G, with some operators and developers lining up for Sprint Nextel Corp. <SN> technology WiMax, and others to promote the LTE system.

Hamid Akhavan, head of T-Mobile in 12 countries, said in February LTE, appears to be the most promising prospects for future networks, but he was not ready to commit themselves to the technology proved its worth.

“There are still many issues to resolve,” he told Reuters Akhavan then. “At best, some of our markets can demonstrate that LTE in 2010.

Canada Nortel Networks said it sees LTE, as the most likely path of modernization, about 80 percent of the world’s mobile phone provider, on the other WiMax.

source : reuters.com

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