WHAT IS LTE?

LTE stands for “Long Term Evolution” is the new wireless broadband technology standard that developed by 3GPP or the 3rd Generation Partnership Project , some refer to it as a 4G (fourth generation) technology along with WiMax. 3GPP group first introduced LTE to provide data transfer and afterwards mobile equipment manufacturers and mobile network providers joined this group in 2009 to build new shape of Voice over LTE by using VoLGA (Voice over LTE Generic Access) Forum.

LTE will bring many technical benefits to cellular networks ,the main targets for this evolution are increased data rates that more capacity and increased data speeds with downlink speeds of 100Mbit/s and up to 50Mbit/s uplink rates, improved spectrum efficiency because LTE uses radio spectrum allows more data to transfer at the same bandwidth used by any 3G equipment or device.

Hence, users are bound to get more data transfer at the same speed, improved coverage, reduced latency and packet-optimized system that support multiple Radio Access Technologies.

LTE offers scalable bandwidths, from less than 5MHz up to 20MHz, together with support fiexible carrier bandwidths, from 1.4MHz up to 20MHz. LTE also supports frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD).