FCC approves LTE gear from LG, WiMAX says 'welcome to the party'

It's not anything cool like a phone or a laptop, but LTE gear of any sort operating on North American frequencies is pretty rare at the moment, so we'll take what we can get. LG has slid its LEO3 "user equipment" through the FCC's labs, talkin' Long Term Evolution on the 1700MHz AWS band and filed under the FCC's Licensed Non-Broadcast Station Transmitter category -- in other words, infrastructure equipment that none of us will ever see, but we'll certainly be glad it's there when we're clipping along at 50Mbps or so. Verizon, we know you've partnered with Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson, but is there any chance this is your stuff?

[Via Phone Scoop]

[El Jefe Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:10PM]

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[zackn87 Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:13PM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:13PM]

200mW doesn't seem like an awful lot - they must be putting up a base station every 500 meters especially if they using the piddly internal antennas that all the 'cool' phones have. most wifi equipment only transmits at 100mW and uses frequencies close enough to what this thing is using

[EpsilonNot Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:15PM]

Hm, I thought VZW's spectrum for LTE would be in the 700 MHz range? But I suppose they could be testing in the AWS band... (does VZW own any AWS spectrum?)

[totalfixation Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:20PM]

This will probably be geared towards T-mobile?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:17PM]

ahahaha!!

Mojo just found out that iPod shuffle needs Apple headphones!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:45PM]

what the hell are you talking about?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2009 12:45AM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2009 1:19AM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:20PM]

VZ is planning at 700MHz. VZ also has 1700MHz, but I think it is more likely MetroPCS, Leap Wireless or U.S. Cellular for testing purposes. They all have 1700MHz. Cable does too, but they seem to be sitting on their hands. MetroPCS has been hyping LTE plans recently.

[LiQuiDFuSioN Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:26PM]

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[d889 Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:41PM]

this isnt like the cell towers themsevles, most likely just a point to point transfer like sending from the towers to another tower, like a fixed location

when you start seeing devices marked in the lower 700 ish range than that is going to the consumer chip

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2009 12:10AM]

backhaul equipment uses ridiculously high frequencies - several jiggahertz. this is definitely mobile terminal / subscriber-style equipment.

[gerrrg Posted Mar 18th 2009 10:59PM]

I smell competition.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2009 11:33PM]

actually, that was me. sorry

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2009 11:37PM]

This is User Equipment (UE, probably a USB dongle or PC card), not infrastructure. The power and antenna specifications make this clear.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 1:58PM]

Abilidebob!