Telecom Lead Asia: Touch, a mobile service provider in Lebanon, in association with Huawei, has completed field trial of LTE FDD 800MHz/1800MHz carrier aggregation (CA) technology on live network.
Wael Ayoub, CEO, Touch, said: “Touch is the first mobile operator in the world to use this technology over the 800MHz and 1800MHz bandwidths.”
Huawei in a statement said the field trial achieved a maximum of 250 Mb/s download throughput, reaching almost the highest speeds ever recorded.
CA technology includes intra-band and inter-band CA, and is an essential technology for LTE-Advanced.
Compared with intra-band CA, inter-band CA is more advanced and provides more flexible usage of spectrum resources.
While 800MHz and 1800MHz become major frequency resources for LTE, the CA test on these two bands marks a significant achievement for CA technology commercialization.
LTE-Advanced will eventually reach a speed of 250 Mb/s compared to a traditional speed of 100 to 150 Mb.
By January 2013, Huawei had deployed 73 commercial LTE networks worldwide representing a near 39 percent global market share.
The Chinese telecom gear maker claims that it deployed the world’s largest GSM/LTE 1800MHz network, the world’s first LTE DD800MHz commercial network in Germany, the world’s largest coverage LTE network in Russia, and the world’s first SingleRAN WiMAX/LTE network in Saudi Arabia.
