Ericsson joins top global players to drive LTE Broadcast at Mobile World Congress 2015 - Seite 2

Alan Hadden, VP of Research, GSA, says: "The combination of expanding global LTE coverage, assisted by deployments in lower bands including APT700, falling terminal costs and LTE Broadcast technology will extend education, health and other public service programs to billions of citizens, for which GSA encourages device ecosystems to be developed."

Thomas Norén, VP and Head of Product Area Radio, Ericsson, says: "Ericsson has been at the forefront of developing and implementing LTE Broadcast technology around the world.  This technology has great potential to grow much further, with more use cases such as TV Services, Cached Media, Software Updates including application updates, Connected Car, Digital Signage and Public Safety.  Together with leading industry partners in ecosystem development, we can spur the big business opportunity for the industry and promote the use of the technology more widely."

The LTE Broadcast User Group meeting is an invitation-only event, taking place at the Ericsson stand (Hall 2) at Mobile World Congress, Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, on Monday, March 2.

Highlights include a presentation by Facebook of their perspectives and use case of LTE Broadcast to deliver App updates to reach billions of users worldwide in a highly efficient manner. 

The user group is expected to identify areas of collaborative action to promote wide adoption of LTE Broadcast as a key component of LTE network strategy.
In conjunction with the User Group meeting, Ericsson will showcase a number of LTE Broadcast live demos, along with ecosystem partners, including: 

• Public Safety with LTE Broadcast - with Motorola and Qualcomm Technologies
• LTE Broadcast for Software Updates - with Facebook and Qualcomm Technologies
• LTE Broadcast on TDD -  with Intel
• LTE Broadcast on Set-Top Box - with Technicolor and Qualcomm Technologies
• Dynamic switching between unicast and broadcast
• Growing ecosystem of commercial devices, dongles, and set-top boxes supporting LTE Broadcast

Ericsson at Mobile World Congress 2015