4G broadband gets on the road
T-MOBILE AND NORTEL NETWORKS have gushed compliments at each other shortly after successfully trialing their LTE (Long Term Evolution – soon-to-be-4G) mobile broadband technology in real-life conditions in Bonn.
Zooming away on a German motorway at 67Km/h (probably being honked at by every single driver), Nortel and T-Mobile zapped data to and from their respective HQs in Bonn at 170Mb/s downlink and 50Mb/s uplink rates, speeds you don't have today on fixed internet access. The tests were performed on the 2.1GHz band, according to a spokesbeing at T-Mobile, and the signal was zapped across three cells, over a 4Km stretch of said motorway and registered no interruptions or loss of quality. The car was equipped with LG terminals, but driven by someone’s nana.
It seems the biggest challenge for the T-Mobile/Nortel team was not being fined for driving too slow on a German motorway. You can picture the guys in white lab coats screaming “Schneller! Schneller!”…
The next phase is to test out HDTV, Hi-def video and online gaming, adding to the list of things not to do whilst driving a motor vehicle.
Nortel is confident they’ve hit the jackpot here, and claim that 80 per cent of the market will adopt LTE as their next-gen 4G network. Intel’s WiMAX, however, might have something to say about it… or then again… not. LTE, as a standard, is expected to be ratified in December 2008 and holds little discord amongst the partners – most of which are the big carriers and equipment vendors.
Working out the quirks, closing deals and getting it on the market seems to be the highest priority right now. µ
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Goodbye fixed internet? I think this is one big step closer.

Great to see :)
If it comes soon and at an affordable prices , there will be no need to replace old landlines with fibre uk. It will save lots of money and inconvenience in digging the roads etc. Wimax is also needed to offer competition. While there are Wimax licences in UK , the longer they take to bring out the commercial service , the value of their licence will diminish rapidly with LTE on the horizon.
Sure you have those speeds, and more, on fixed lines, during tests in-house, just like this is a test and not what the consumer will be getting obviously if alone because with 2 users you have all the bandwidth and frequencies for yourself unlike a real commercial system in operation.

Common Indonesia, when will you ready for 4G?
"Duh" makes a good point. I have no idea what 3G is supposed to be capable of. I'm sure it would look fantastic if only 2 people in the entire world were using it. Just wait until 2+ million people are using this 4G/LTE system. In comes crowding and interference, packet loss, delay, structures in the way... blah blah blah. I'm not sure that I will ever trust wireless to carry all my data as opposed to having a wired connection at home, and work. Weather will come into play also. 
Good evolution, but its still no the opposable thumb that wireless needs to be great.