Nokia Siemens completes LTE field trial, 173Mbps worth of success

by Chris Ziegler posted Dec 27th 2007 at 5:25PM

So-called Long Term Evolution -- GSM's chosen warpath for the next generation of data networks -- has been getting its groove on in labs for some time now, so Nokia Siemens decided it was high time to kick things up a notch by taking it out into the wild. The wireless infrastructure joint venture deployed an LTE base station in Berlin on the nascent 2.6GHz band and sent cars equipped with test equipment as far as one kilometer away to check performance, and put simply, the results were good: 173Mbps good, in the best cases. Of course, commercial deployment of LTE is still years away -- Nokia Siemens makes a point of listing 2010 as the target right in its press release -- but it's good to hear that things are coming along swimmingly, and we're sure Verizon would agree.

[Via PhoneMag and Ubergizmo]

Filed under: GSM

Tags: lte, nokia, nokia siemens, NokiaSiemens, siemens

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Pete @ Dec 27th 2007 6:17PM

What are the average real world speeds going to be? Will we be able to get 20/5 Mbps types of speeds with LTE???

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CB17 @ Dec 27th 2007 6:37PM

Whoops sorry forgot to hit the reply for below...

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CB17 @ Dec 27th 2007 6:36PM

Did you not read the article...those ARE real world... They sent a guy in a REAL car a REAL kilometer away. Does it really get much more real than that?

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Pete @ Dec 27th 2007 7:16PM

Yeah I read the article... but if you think you are going to get 173 Mbps you are kidding yourself. Fios isn't even offering those speeds over fiber. Those are "best conditions," which means no overloaded towers, no buildings in the way, perfect weather, etc etc... I want to know what the average speeds we can expect in 5 years when these networks start getting deployed and there is a full load of network traffic. Will 20/5 be possible from my basement or on the way to work?

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