Broadcom has recently demonstrated that its smartphone modem can communicate with a “live” 300 Mbps LTE commercial network. Although demonstrations using a similar technology have been done in the past, Broadcom says that it is the first to do so on a “live” network (in Finland) which means that a cell tower used to serve actual wireless customers was upgraded and used for the demonstration. The test device itself was only yards away from the tower to achieve the best speeds, but this is not unusual for that kind of demonstration.
I recently met with Scott McGregor (Broadcom’s CEO) and for him, this milestone shows that Broadcom has basically caught up to Qualcomm over the past two years since both companies have now announced their Cat6 LTE support within a week from one another. At this point in time, these are the only two companies that I know of that have reached this stage of LTE support. (more…)
Broadcom Forging Ahead With 300 Mbps Cat6 LTE original content from Ubergizmo. 
     |
Post a Comment