I read to my amazement this morning that LTE is now going to be too slow!! It is still years away, and will be radically faster than anything we can get today from 3G, but it is already being superceded by something called
Advanced LTE which will deliver downlink data rates of around 1Gb/s and uplink data rates of around 500Mb/s. Seemingly, LTE in the way that it is defined today does not meet the criteria for 4G and should only be considered a form of 3G on steroids. Meanwhile in the same publication I noticed that
Japanese cellco eMobile is predicting that LTE will supercede not only ADSL but also FTTH.
Its not clear how much of this to take seriously as we have yet to see LTE hit the streets in anger, and will likely have to wait another 12 months for that. But I like the ambition in both articles. The only thing that is clear to me is that the industry will never stop changing. There always seems to be another hill to climb!
Posted
09-09-2009 1:06 AM
by
Martin Creaner