Nokia finally chose the LTE standard for the fourth generation mobile communications

The world's largest mobile phones manufacturer, Nokia, is one of the first to begin the release of mobile devices with support for fourth -generation cellular technology. At the same time, the company decided to give preference to the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard and plans to start manufacturing devices based on it in 2010, reports CNews.ru with reference to Gigaom. True, according to James Harper, the Nokia marketing director, it is not yet known which operators will sell such devices.

Nokia also did not report the type of these devices, noting only that they will be focused on work with large amounts of data. They will probably become mobile Internet devices or netbooks. Recently, the chief executive director of Nokia Olli-Pecca Kallasvuo said that his company is considering the possibility of the production of mobile PCs .

Nokia initially tried to introduce into its devices to support another proposed fourth -generation mobile communications standard - WiMAX, but later abandoned this venture.

According to Harper, the main disadvantages of WIMAX are the lack of reverse compatibility and a more or less clear plan for the development of this standard. According to him, WiMAX will remain niche, unexpressed technology, while the future is precisely for LTE.

The company presented a long -term plan for the transition to new mobile technologies. In 2009, the GSM standard will serve as a vote, while the HSPA (High Speed ​​Packet Access) will dominate the standards of broadband communication. For 2010-2013 Expansion in the area of ​​LTE is outlined. This standard will replace HSPA, while the voice will still be transmitted via GSM. Starting from 2012-2013. The voice will begin to be transmitted via LTE networks and via the Internet.

The world's first commercial network of the LTE standard plans to build NTT DoComo in Japan in 2010. American AT&T intends to deploy such a network in 2011, Verizon? A year earlier. The latter has already tested the network in the field in the states of Ohio, Minnesota and New Jersey.

Communication for multimedia services

The LTE standard was developed by the 3GPP International Partnership Association. The purpose of the development of the LTE standard is to create high -speed cellular systems optimized for package data at a speed of up to 300 Mbps in the descending channel (from the base station to the user) and up to 75 Mbit/s in the ascending channel. The peak data transfer speeds in the early implementations should be more than 100 Mbps in the descending channel and more than 50 Mbps in the direction of the user.

LTE, according to its developers, better uses the frequency spectrum, increases the data rate of data transfer, helps to increase the quality of the services provided, accelerates the distribution of new multimedia services (multi-user games, social networks, video conferences, monitoring systems and M2M, interactive online applications, etc.).

The commercial introduction of the first LTE equipment is expected back in 2009. It is assumed that by 2015 the total income of the LTE standard operators will amount to $ 150 billion (about 15% of the world's revenue of the cellular service market), and the number of their subscribers around the world will exceed 400 million. It is expected that the deployment of commercial networks of LTE will begin no later than 2010, and the widespread provision of services based on them - since 2011.

According to the marketing research of Strategy Analytics, sales of telephones with LTE support will double from 70 million copies in 2012 to 150 million copies in 2013.