Motorola has just announced that they have launched their LTE trial network and testing lab in Swindon, UK. The network which was demonstrated with an over-the-air, standards compliant LTE call using infrastructure operating in the 2.6GHz range and using a LTE prototype device.
“Motorola is at the forefront of 4G development which will address the mobility demands of today’s consumers who are looking for personalized media experiences and operators looking to lower their cost per bit and gain a competitive advantage.”
said Joe Cozzolino, senior vice president and general manager, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility, EMEA & Asia Pacific.
Motorola’s LTE rollout will include products for the 700MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum ands to help customer increase coverage and capacity of their networks and allow them to faster and better then current 3G technologies.
So LTE is finally becoming a reality not that it has a choice with it becoming the next standard and all but it seems a fair way off in our neck of the woods considering the amount of money and time both Optus and Telstra have invested in their 3G HSDPA lately, and with Optus due to complete it’s coverage rollout of it’s ‘yes G’ network by the end of this year, thus giving them equal coverage to Telstra’s Next-G network, I’m very doubtful we will see LTE rolled out here with in the next 3-5 years. It does seem as though it maybe something we get within the next 5-10 but we will just have to wait and see, one thing is for sure, you can never have enough speed 
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[Story from Motorola]
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