LTE (Long Term Evolution) has been designed from the very beginning to provide a natural evolution path for GSM/GPRS and UMTS networks. As a consequence, someone knowledgeable about UMTS will find many aspects of LTE to be familiar. But how does someone...

By Don Hanley, Senior Consultant - 2/2009 1xEV-DO and LTE networks are surprisingly similar in many respects, but the terms, labels and acronyms they use are very different. How can a 1xEV-DO operator make sense of this new jargon? Introduction...

LTE has been designed to support packet services in a more efficient manor than UMTS. The key service, from a wireless data network perspective, is the establishment of the data session that will be used by the mobile device for data services. In UMTS...