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Yota dumps WiMAX in favour of LTE

Posted by Editor on Monday, 06 September 2010 08:37 | Published in Telecom & Technology
Samsung has partnered with Yota

Yota, one of the first operators in the world to launch a network based on WiMAX technology, has dumped the Intel backed standard as it expands into new cities in favor of LTE, which has recently gained global acceptance by over 100 operators according to the company. Their first LTE network covers the 3rd largest city in Russia, Kazan, with a 1 million population  with network speeds of around 100 Mbps using a little less than 150 cell towers. What’s more impressive is that the network took only 2 months to build and cost only $20 million. Yota has committed to launching LTE in five other Russian cities this year, and will spend another $100 million in order to execute on that goal.

LTE stands for Long Term Evolution and is the latest standard in the mobile network technology tree that previously realized the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSxPA network technologies. It is a project of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), operating under a name trademarked by one of the associations within the partnership, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

Yota continues to operate  WiMAX networks in Moscow and the regional city of Ufa.

America has yet to launch their first LTE network, and while Verizon Wireless has said they’re going to have 4G covering 30 markets by the end of this year, they’re only promising network speeds of between 5 and 12 Mbps. A far cry from the 100 Mbps the Russians are getting, and the roughly 80 Mbps the Swedes are getting courtesy of TeliaSonera.

TeliaSonera, the first operator in the world to launch a commercial LTE network, has only recently turned on the high speed wireless technology to Sweden’s second largest city,  Gothenburg, this summer. They have proved that their 4G technology is robust enough to deploy on a large scale. Since December 2009 TeliaSonera has been giving customers consistent speeds of over 25 Mbps, with bursts in the 85 to 90 Mbps range. The only LTE devices thus far have been USB dongles.

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