Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Pros and Cons of LTE

Advantages of LTE
  • Facilitates the current applications to perform on better speed as well as for the new mobile applications
  • Decreases the traffic of communication in term of sending data.
  • Allows more users to use the same frequency that result in increasing of Mobile Broadband users.
  • Separates frequencies into different channel in order to protect the disturbance of each channel; the solution was called “Orthogonal”.
  • Offers faster data rate transfer as compare to existing 3G network equipments by using radio waves over the same bandwidth.
  • Supports more data capacity because it focuses on VoIP(Voice Over Internet Protocol).
  • Allows wireless broadband providers to transition to this new technology without rebuilding their entire networks from the ground up.
  • Supports voice and Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging using existing networks via Generic Access (VoLGA).


Disadvantages of LTE
  • Start-up costs of service providers and consumers for equipment upgrades are too high; new equipments will be needed to be installed.
  • Need to use additional antennas at network base stations for data transmission. As a result to the network upgrades users need to buy new cell phones to make use of new network infrastructure.


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