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UK LTE trial kicks off
MOBILE OPERATOR O2 has launched its first successful live UK Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial in conjunction with Huawei.
The trial was done near O2's headquarters in Slough and achieved a cell peak downlink rate of 150Mbps during the event.
"We are pleased to collaborate with Huawei on this LTE trial, which will allow us to better understand this emerging technology and prepare us in offering our customers next generation mobile broadband services in the future," said Derek McManus, CTO of O2 UK.
The trial follows Telefónica's announcement that it will commence trials of the 4G LTE/SAE (System Architecture Evolution) technology. Huawei is the first of Telefónica's trial LTE vendors to have successfully implemented a live trial LTE network.
While gaining popularity in other regions, neither Wimax nor LTE have gained much attention or traction in the UK. This is partially down to issues around spectrum allocation. However the growing demand for mobile data access combined with the government's Digital Britain plans to make sure everyone has access to broadband, could see this become increasingly popular.
"Huawei is very keen to be involved with the Telefónica O2 UK trials for LTE/SAE technology," said Samuel Sun, managing director of Huawei UK.
"We have demonstrated our state-of-the-art mobile technologies and capability to deliver on our promise. These trials will give an excellent reference to Telefónica O2 for the evaluation of LTE technology."
According to Sun, Huawei has now deployed 25 LTE/SAE networks with tier one operators in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. µ
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shame that LTE is 3.9G the last iteration of 3G and NOT 4G as eveyone is reporting - FACT
Except we know the carriers (especially O2) will be oversubscribing their back-haul so much that you'll be lucky to see even 10% of the potential.
Just make it reasonably fast but 100% reliable, 100% coverage, 100% no dropped connections.
Simple. Just go an' fcuking do it. ;-)
Make the base stations cheaper, then you can have more of them, and we can have a better chance of 100% product.
because as far as my experiences with O2 go an ive been with them for 10 years, i have issues getting an Edge signal in the largest city in Scotland let alone the HSDPA that according to O2 is available in my area. So this will more than likely only work 5 feet from the transmeter and there after you'll be back on GPRS.
O2 should either make this work so that it works in the areas they say it covers or forget it and make there existing network better which would help many of there existing customers an stop them leaving because of the loyalty system being scrapped.
Ironically i can get a 3G signal up many of scotlands mountains which is helpful but since i dont live with sheep in the snowcovered wind swept highlands its of little use in my everyday life.