[LINK] "IMT-Advanced" 4G mobile standard, 1 Gbit/s

[TKoltai]

This reminds me of Microsoft five year in advance PR product
announcements to discourage competition. 

The NBN chappies shouldn’t worry too much.

Backhaul will be the issue for the 19,000+ base stations around the
country.
In fact, every one of them will need at a minimum terabit fibre
upgrades.

(Most long haul fibre in Australia (apart from the NBN - Leighton
Nextgen) is 2.5 Gb Stage 3 Singlemode fibre.)

So to actually deliver the service should take about, oh 6-8 years or
so...

Oh did I mention that Australia's international capacity is only 1.93
Terabits ???

TomK



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> International Telecommunication Union
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> http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2012/02.aspx
> 
> 
> "IMT-Advanced" standards announced for next-generation mobile 
> technology
> 
> Specifications for ITU-R recommendation agreed by Radio Assembly 
> 
> 
> Geneva, 18 January 2012 – Specifications for next-generation mobile 
> technologies – IMT-Advanced – were agreed today at the 
> Radiocommunication 
> Assembly (ITU) currently meeting in Geneva.
> 
> Following a detailed evaluation against stringent technical and 
> operational criteria, ITU has determined that "LTE-Advanced" 
> and "WirelessMAN-Advanced" should be accorded the official 
> designation of 
> IMT-Advanced.
> 
> IMT-Advanced systems include new capabilities that go beyond 
> IMT-2000, 
> widely deployed since 2000 and referred to as 3G mobile 
> technologies. ITU 
> has now specified the standards for IMT-Advanced, the next-generation 
> global wireless broadband communications that provide access 
> to a wide 
> range of packet-based telecommunication services supported by 
> mobile and 
> fixed networks.
> 
> ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré hailed the announcement as a 
> landmark development in mobile technology. 
> 
> “IMT-Advanced marks a huge leap forward in state-of-the-art 
> technologies, 
> which will make the present day smart phone feel like an old dial up 
> Internet connection. Access to the Internet, streaming videos 
> and data 
> transfers anytime, anywhere will be better than most desktop 
> connections 
> today.”
> 
> (For research purposes, the target transmission rates for 
> IMT-Advanced 
> was set at 100 Mbit/s when used in a high mobility environment (e.g. 
> driving in a car) and 1 Gbit/s in a stationary environment.)
> 
> Mr François Rancy, Director of ITU’s Radiocommunication Bureau, 
> said, “IMT-Advanced would be like putting a fibre optic broadband 
> connection on your mobile phone, making your phone at least 100 times 
> faster than today’s 3G smart phones. 
> 
> But it’s not only about speed; it’s about efficiency. 
> IMT-Advanced will 
> use radio-frequency spectrum much more efficiently making higher data 
> transfers possible on lesser bandwidth. This will enable 
> mobile networks 
> to face the dramatic increase in data traffic that is expected in the 
> coming years”
> 
> IMT-Advanced systems support low to high mobility 
> applications and a wide 
> range of data rates in accordance with user and service demands in 
> multiple user environments. IMT-Advanced also has 
> capabilities for high 
> quality multimedia applications within a wide range of services and 
> platforms, providing a significant improvement in performance 
> and quality 
> of service.
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