Next week the 3GPP will host the LTE world summit in the Netherlands. The conference focuses on the 3GPP’s (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard for next generation mobile telecommunications networks. LTE is the main competitor to the WiMAX standard, both of which are branded as 4G mobile network standards, and is capable of speeds up to 100Mbit/s downloads and 50Mbits/s uploads wirelessly.
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In December last year two wireless mobile networks, compliant with the LTE next generation mobile network standard (see the previous blog post here), were rolled out in the Scandinavian capitals Stockholm and Oslo by network provider TeliaSonera. While the LTE standard, which offers considerably faster connection speeds relative to the current 3G technologies, is widely backed by Governments and Network Providers, the TeliaSonera networks were the world’s first publically available networks utilizing the new technology and market a significant mile stone for the new technology.
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