LTE is likely the most complex wireless system ever developed. It incorporates features that could not have been economically implemented as recently as a decade ago. Today, with large-scale ICs, LTE ...

January 21, 2014. Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced the E7515A UXM wireless test set, a highly integrated signaling test set created for functional and RF design validation in the 4G era and ...

Ericsson has announced plans overnight to use new software to upgrade commercial 4G long-term evolution (LTE) networks worldwide to enable peak speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. The Ericsson ...

A recent and rather extensive test of 4G LTE networks in several parts of the United States revealed that competition is heating up in the high-speed wireless space. It also showed that Sprint, home ...

AT&T’s “5G E” service is slightly slower than Verizon’s and T-Mobile’s advanced 4G LTE networks, a study by OpenSignal has found. As Ars readers know, AT&T renamed a large portion of its 4G network, ...

Verizon and Ericsson have announced an expansion of their 4G LTE partnership, with the Swedish networking giant to deploy its 4G and 5G-ready radio system across multiple US markets. The baseband and ...

As the Long Term Evolution (LTE) of UMTS networks begins its worldwide rollout based on 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 8, and as new features are considered for Release 9, big ...

Late last week, the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) finally agreed on which technologies qualify for the IMT-Advanced specification. The ITU has decided that LTE-Advanced (which is a ...

Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of supporting LTE-Advanced 4G networks — which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE — in South Korea this month. No ...

Last April, AT&T announced 5G Evolution, which is nothing more than a rebranding of its 4G LTE Advanced and LTE Advanced Pro networks. In December, the carrier even announced that it was going to ...

There’s a good chance residents of Boston and Seattle will have a new high-speed wireless broadband option before the end of this year—Verizon Wireless recently announced plans to test its 4G wireless ...

When it comes to wireless broadband standards, there are many acronyms to keep track of. However, few are more important than LTE and 4G. Knowing the difference between 4G and LTE (and now 5G) might ...