4G Americas Reports 300 LTE Networks Worldwide - Seite 2

In March of this year, AT&T launched LTE-Advanced in Chicago making them the first major U.S. carrier to offer the service. It is expected that all four national U.S. carriers -- AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon -- will launch LTE-Advanced in 2014 and 2015. The world's first LTE-Advanced network using Carrier Aggregation was commercially launched in South Korea by SK Telecom (which included a compatible handset) in June 2013. Carrier Aggregation is important for carriers around the world as it allows them to create larger spectrum swaths by combining disparate spectrum assets. The larger the spectrum swaths, the better the efficiency of LTE; however, Carrier Aggregation is just one component of LTE-Advanced; it also includes other elements such as Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP), Self-Optimizing Networks (SON), small cell enhancements, Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC) and advanced Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) antenna technology to improve network performance and capacity.

AT&T's Kris Rinne, Sr. Vice President, Network and Product Planning will be speaking at the 4G Americas Operators Summit on LTE-Advanced and Beyond on September 9 at 4G World, a featured event at Super Mobility Week, with other leading industry experts from Alcatel-Lucent, Commscope, Ericsson, HP, Intel, Mavenir, Nokia, Qualcomm and T-Mobile USA. In the panel, Roadmap for LTE-Advanced, experts from Alcatel-Lucent and Commscope will share the stage with Kris Rinne to explore the many features of enhancement for LTE in the next evolutionary step. The Summit also includes a panel on Core Network Evolution to NFV, moderated by Iain Gillott of iGR, followed by a session on 5G Requirements for 2020 and Beyond, moderated by Chris Pearson.

"I am excited to be working with 4G Americas to host their Operators Summit on LTE-Advanced and Beyond," noted Berge Ayvazian, 4G World Conference Chair. "The Summit will provide all participants with best practices and real world advice on how operators can deploy LTE-Advanced to keep pace with unprecedented 4G traffic growth." 

For more information on LTE-Advanced, the white paper, 4G Mobile Broadband Evolution: 3GPP Release 11 & Release 12 and Beyond, is available for free download. 4G Americas maintains current lists of HSPA+ and LTE Global Deployments by region on its website. For more information and to view a variety of statistical charts on the 3GPP family of technologies, visit www.4gamericas.org. Subscriber and forecast data is from Informa Telecoms & Media World Cellular Information Service (WCIS+).