T-Mobile USA Pitching Long Term HSPA Evolution to 3GPP
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Dec 15, 2010, 1:34 PM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Dec 15, 2010, 1:36 PM
T-Mobile USA and Nokia Siemens Networks today announced that they are seeking standardization of Long Term HSPA Evolution, which they say could reach download speeds of up to 650Mbps. The companies believe that this technology can be developed to compete with Long Term Evolution Advanced as a true 4G technology. Nokia Siemens says that it already has the Radio Access Network (RAN) platform in place to support Long Term HSPA Evolution. The companies believe they could deploy Long Term HSPA Evolution for commercial use by 2013. It will be backward compatible with today's HSPA and WCDMA systems. The standard would be developed in RAN focus groups by the 3GPP.
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With vodafone pushing lte onto verizon it looked like we were moving toward a world standard for wireless networks, or at least a western world standard. But it seems that we are going to be more fragmented than ever here in the states. Instead of two competing tech's (cdma and gsm) we are going to have 3. ah well... I really don't know what my point is here.
I think I know your point.... YAY FOR PHONES THAT WONT WORK ON OTHER CARRIERS!!! Everyone loves being even more limited right?!?! Anybody.....
With T-Mobile forced to use AWS spectrum it was going to be in any case.
crood
Dec 16, 2010, 2:13 PM
Do they have to be purposely confusing?
Did they have to call it something that sounds so similar to LTE? It seems like they just want to confuse people.
I don't think the majority of people out there can tell the difference between lte and bfe as it is. Let alone gprs, edge, HSPA, UMTS, wcdma, cdma, gsm, 1x, wimax, HSDPA, HSUPA and a few others out there.
They just call it 3g and 4g. plain and sim...
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Exactly! This is just another marketing delay tactic by tmobile so they can now say tmobile will have lte some day and its customers dont jump ship. 2013 is a long way off it will take even longer for tmobile to deploy an actual network let alone hit ...
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Long Term HSPA Evolution isnt LTE?
What's the difference?
LTE isn't backwards compatible with HSPA. That means if TMO or ATT used LTE then their older phones would not benefit at all from them upgrading their networks. Since Long Term HSPA Evolution is backwards compatible then people with older phones would...
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5G
Since T-Mobile has already branded their current offering 4G will this be branded 5G?
Good question? They will probable call it 4g+ with 5g like speeds... 🤣
Technically, they can't. Current marketing of 4G, precieves that when the time comes they probably could. Ethically, they shouldn't. Marketing wise, they probably would.
John B.
Really, if they provide 100 mbps, I wouldn't care if they called it edge.
Holy Canoli!
That's fast. That's burn-through-your-battery-in-ten-seconds fast. I want. Too bad T-Mo will inevitably bungle it; it won't work outside of major metropolitan areas; and the aforementioned battery issue. It might actually be too fast for a cell phone. I mean that to say it would be pointless on a phone. On a USB webstick, it would rock.
Take your "Theoretical Maximums" and divide by 10 for real world speeds. Kthxbye.
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