4G Technology To Help Operators Cut Costs

Due to the introduction of the fourth generation (4G) communication technology, operators will be able to deal, in the next years, with the increase of mobile data traffic and reduce operating costs, mobile phone supplier Nokia Siemens Networks Romania general manager Dragos Chivu said. "Nokia estimates a 300-fold increase of mobile data traffic at an international level until 2015. In Romania, according to the data offered by traffic.ro, the number of visitors increased from 40 million in 2007, to 71 million in November 2009. In this context, introducing a 4G technology, namely the Long Term Evolution (LTE), will no longer be a dream, but a necessity," Chivu told a news conference.

 

The Long Term Evolution is a last generation wireless communications technology, capable to ensure internet connecting speed of over 170 Mbps, ten times more than in the 3G networks.

 

In Europe, the LTE technology is tested by mobile operators in Finland, Germany, Norway, Spain and Great Britain and is about to appear on the market in Sweden and Norway in the first half of 2010.

 

According to Chivu, Nokia Siemens Networks is interested in unfolding tests with LTE equipments in Romania, and therefore will ask the National Communications Authority (ANCOM) to insure a 2.6 GHz frequency band.