Report: By 2016, Half a Million TD-LTE Base Stations will be deployed
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to market research, At least half a million base stations is believed to be installed or upgraded for TD-LTE by the end of 2016. TD-LTE is the Time-Division Duplex (TDD) variant of the fourth-generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless standard. Aditya Kaul, Practice Director, Mobile Networks said, "It was only two years ago that nearly every WiMAX operator, including operators with unpaired TDD frequency spectrum, were planning to deploy WiMAX 2. Today, almost all of them have switched plans and are deploying TD-LTE instead." WiMAX operators today are believed to be generally offering fixed WiMAX service based on the IEEE 802.16d specification, or mobile WiMAX service based on IEEE 802.16e. The IEEE 802.16m standard (also known as WiMAX 2) was developed to provide higher data rates and increased capacity and the members of the WiMAX Forum committed to follow this evolution path for 4G. Jim Eller, Principal Analyst,...