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Bill Hurley

Management Information Systems

How LTE Changes Mobility

4/2/12

InformationWeek

            The world of mobile devices has evolved so much in the past few years. With the new forms of LTE, it makes information quicker to grasp and surfing the web on a mobile device has never been faster. LTE, by making more efficient use of spectrum and offering impressive features to increase capacity, promises to help operators meet demand. LTE by itself won’t be able to carry out all of this though. Choosing your wireless plan can determine the capacity of information you can go through on the wireless system according to the latest InformationWeek Mobile Device Management and Security Survey. Verizon and AT&T are at the top of the list but neither offers unlimited data plans for new customers.  So, when you choose a plan it must be a blended technology of not just one network, but others combined to give more spectrum. Also it must have the capability to off-load data onto Wi-Fi.

            Another thing to do is to try to keep bandwidth limitations in mind when considering your organization's mobility initiatives. For example, 68% of respondents to our MDM survey say they use or plan to deploy virtual desktop technologies on tablets. Fifty-nine percent say they have enabled or will enable access to cloud services via mobile devices. LTE can help address not only capacity concerns, but also quality of service, voice over IP, and fragmented radio bands.

            This is getting to be very important in our day to day life so choosing the right network is very significant to your quality of wireless usage.  There are companies such as Verizon that use the “underpromise and overdeliver” business plan. Their average rates of Mbps are actually not as good as they actually are. This means that this business plan employs a mass rate of happiness with their network.  I feel that this is going to take the nation by storm because of this new deliverance plan.

            In the future, speeds will go even higher. That's because current networks use either 5-MHz or 10-MHz radio channels. However, LTE supports 20-MHz radio channels. Operators would love to deploy in such a wide radio channel because it not only boosts performance, it also doubles capacity for the same amount of network infrastructure. The problem is, they just don't have enough spectrum.