LTE Dominates Mobile World Congress
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS — As the industry inches closer to commercial launch of the 4G technology known as LTE later this year, industry activity and consensus to support the technology is ramping up. CDMA operators like Verizon Wireless joining the GSM Association and backing a common standard for voice over LTE is just the beginning.
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Global support for LTE is a major theme at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as evidenced by CDMA operators China Telecom, KDDI, and Verizon Wireless joining the LTE-backing GSM Association. All three have announced plans to deploy LTE, but their legacy networks are a diverging technology from GSM-based operators in the rest of the world. The idea of seamless applications running over such disparate networks just got closer to reality with the new membership. To boot, Qualcomm Inc. has also joined the GSMA as an associate member and will work with the operators to aid the smooth integration of LTE with existing 3G technologies.
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