LTE / SAE Trial Initiative delivers test results: it's all good

We've already seen a number of ultra-high speed alternatives to LTE trialed and drooled over, so it's about time that Long Term Evolution had its 15 minutes, too. The LTE / SAE Trial Initiative, founded by a gaggle of companies including Nokia, has recently revealed that initial testing "confirmed that the technology will deliver high levels of data throughput both for stationary and mobile devices." More specifically, it was suggested that peak 100Mbps downlink / 50Mbps uplink rates could indeed be met, and we're told that confirmation was "achieved using an agreed set of common transmission profiles, test procedures, and analysis methods." Beyond the hip, hip, hooray, there's not a lot of details to share, but those interested in basking in the glory of one darn fine trial can hit the read link and have at it.

[Via Physorg, image courtesy of LetsGoMobile]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 3rd 2007 6:46PM]

As the WiMAX threat is ever so real, the 3G community needs a response to counter it as their closed club is going down the tubes.

3G-LTE has copied most the features of WiMAX and presently did a PHY layer test in LSTI to prove it actually works. WiBro in Korea and WiMAX trials worldwide have proven this time and again, so no suprise that OFDMA is better technology.

But the real icing on the cake is WiMAX will start deploying next year and LTE will come later in 2010, but needs to be sold now to the street to justify all the inferior CDMA deployments 3G has cooked up in their closed club.