Technology Demonstrations
- In February 2007, NTT DoCoMo announced the completion of a 4G trial where it achieved a maximum packet transmission rate of approximately 5 Gbit/s in the downlink using 12 transmit and 12 receive antennas and 100 MHz frequency bandwidth to a mobile station moving at 10 km/h.
- In February 2011 at Mobile World Congress, Agilent Technologies demonstrated the industry's first test solutions for LTE-Advanced with both signal generation and signal analysis solutions.
- On 9 October, 2012, Russian carrier Yota launched the first-ever commercial implementation of the technology, at 11 of its base-stations around Moscow. However compatible handsets won't be available until the first-half of 2013.
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