Research and Development has been continuously happening at the Nokia Siemens Networks labs and now, they have comeup with the LTE-Advanced, which tends to change the speed limits in LTE technology. In an event recently, the company demonstrated a 1.4Gbps connection using LTE-Advanced in a 100MHz of spectrum.
Ericsson has already demonstrated this technology moths ago, but they were able to hit only about 950Mbps at 60MHz spectrum. Now that we have got a new technology (In fact, a improved technology), we just need to wait until this hits the public market. Both the companies are competing to triple and double these speeds. The LTE-Advanced was demoed under perfect laboratory conditions, but this might vary in real-world conditions.
The NSN’s new LTE-Advanced technology that requires a 100MHz frequency might kickoff anywhere between 2014 or 2015, but not anytime soon! Right now, Verizon is considered to be one of the biggest LTE Service provider in the US and they are fighting hard to get some more spectrum for the users. But due to the push backs from T-Mobile, the company is finding it difficult to get the spectrum.
But now, if this 1.4Gbps comes alive, how many users would adopt this at this point of time? And for what? What would you use this bandwidth for??