http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/ Engadget Comments for Verizon's LTE vendor partners to be revealed at MWC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/Feb 10th 2009 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/Feb 10th 2009 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/
what will it offer that 3G cannot? will we get TV through the phone?]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/
3.9G is LTE or "Release 8".]]>Feb 10th 2009 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/
LTE is 4G, and will provide faster data rates, lower latency, and support more users per tower..]]>Feb 11th 2009 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/
A vendor, Wildman, to Verizon in this case is the people making the phones. RIM (Blackberries), Motorola, LG, etc. ]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/Feb 10th 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/
The standard includes:
-Peak download rates of 326.4 Mbit/s for 4x4 antennas, 172.8 Mbit/s for 2x2 antennas for every 20 MHz of spectrum.
-Peak upload rates of 86.4 Mbit/s for every 20 MHz of spectrum.
-5 different terminal classes have been defined from a voice centric class up to a high end terminal that supports the peak data rates. All terminal will be able to process 20 MHz bandwidth.
-At least 200 active users in every 5 MHz cell. (i.e., 200 active data clients)
-Sub-5ms latency for small IP packets

A characteristic of so-called "4G" networks such as LTE is that they are fundamentally based upon TCP/IP, the core protocol of the Internet, with higher level services such as voice, video, and messaging, built on top of this. In 2004, the 3GPP proposed this as the future of UMTS and began feasibility studies into the so-called All IP Network (AIPN.) These proposals, which included recommendations in 2005 for 3GPP Release 7[5] (though some aspects were in releases as early as 4[6]), form the basis of the effort to build the higher level protocols of evolved UMTS. The LTE part of this effort is called the 3GPP System Architecture Evolution.
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3G = EV-DO (3GPP2 - www.3gpp2.org )
3G = WCDMA (3GPP - www.3gpp.org )


]]>Feb 10th 2009 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/Will it mean cheaper prices to us, I hope, but hard to see...]]>Feb 10th 2009 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/
Do I smell astroturfing?
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Verizon will never be introducing 2G or 3G GSM/UMTS. Don't get your hopes up thinking your unlocked 3G iPhone will ever work on the VZW network... the older networks will remain CDMA. VZW will probably be pushing dual mode CDMA/GSM-LTE handsets at first as the LTE network gets rolled out- but in the long run, with all that juicy 700 Mhz spectrum, LTE should have sufficient coverage to stand on its own. CDMA/GSM dual-mode handsets will probably still be locked down due to the CDMA component, it's only once LTE coverage becomes good enough that VZW customers will really start to be able to use unlocked handsets and such.]]>Feb 10th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/Feb 10th 2009 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/
Verizon is testing gear from Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Nortel. ]]>Feb 11th 2009 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/verizons-lte-vendor-partners-to-be-revealed-at-mwc/Feb 11th 2009 4:44AM