LG U+ Demonstrates 300MBps Wireless Network in Seoul
LG U+ announced has succesfully demonstrated three-band carrier aggregation (CA) of long term evolution (LTE) around its base station located in Sangam-dong, Seoul.
The new long-term evolution (LTE) network technology called "three-band carrier aggregation" connects two LTE frequencies with a 10 megahertz bandwidth each to one broadband LTE frequency with 20 megahertz bandwidth to quadruple the speed. Theoretically, this enables up to 300 megabytes-per-second of data transmission. It would help Korea's third-largest mobile carrier sharpen its edge in competition with the country's biggest carrier SK Telecom. LG Uplus already has three LTE frequency channels, LG U+said.
No smartphone currently available on the market can support three-band LTE networking.
SK Telecom announced that it has succeeded in demonstrating the 300-megabytes-per-second-class LTE technology in its laboratory in January, on the same day as LG Uplus did.
Meanwhile, Australia's Telstra and Sweden's Ericsson already succeeded in demonstrating three-band LTE technology earlier in May, thus LG Uplus is not the first. However, those companies used for their demos the 2.6 GHz frequency, which has not yet been commercialized.
No smartphone currently available on the market can support three-band LTE networking.
SK Telecom announced that it has succeeded in demonstrating the 300-megabytes-per-second-class LTE technology in its laboratory in January, on the same day as LG Uplus did.
Meanwhile, Australia's Telstra and Sweden's Ericsson already succeeded in demonstrating three-band LTE technology earlier in May, thus LG Uplus is not the first. However, those companies used for their demos the 2.6 GHz frequency, which has not yet been commercialized.
