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SKT mobile carrier launches LTE-Advanced network, the world’s fastest mobile network

the world’s fastest mobile network

Wednesday Korea’s biggest mobile carrier SK Telecom (SKT) had launched the world’s faster mobile network the first LTE-Advanced network in the world.

According to our source  koreaherald website, the new LTE-Advanced network will be speeds twice as fast comparing with the existing long-term evolution network,

SKT carrier has begun to put available LTE-A service first among 175 mobile carriers from more than 70 countries around the world which offering LTE network connections.

As I said before, the LTE-A network is twice as faster as the actual LTE network and more than 10 times faster than 3G connection.  For example, 800 megabyte file size can be downloaded in approximately 40 seconds using the LTE-A network.

SKT Company said the LTE-A network service will be available first in Seoul and after that other 42 principal cities will receive this service. Also, some 103 university campuses from the available regions will receive the LTE-A service.

The LTE-A network use a new carrier aggregation method that allow to bonds more than two individual radio frequencies, that method provide faster speeds.

For making possible, this new LTE-A speed connection SK Telecom has made a combination between two 10 MHz frequency channels, and in this manner it is boosting speeds up to obtain 150 MBps.

But phone manufacturers do not stop here, in the near future is expected to surge data traffic worldwide, and for meeting these needs some major mobile operators will put out a new technology called the CA technology. The phone industry experts

According to industry experts who said, the SKT will use the CA technology which will allow providing up to 300 Mbps connection speeds starting with 2015, they want to bond three different frequencies channels for obtaining this speed.

And some experts predict that on 2020, , we will enjoy   advancement of communications technology that will provide a 5G network which will be able to provide speeds up to 1000 times faster than new LTE-A network.

As you probably know that, not all users of smartphones are thrilled with changing communications technologies, they should to change their devices that can be compatible with the new technology.

In the same day that SKT began servicing its new LTE-A network, Samsung Electronics has released the new LTE-compatible Galaxy S4 device. On this way, Samsung S4 became the only LTE-A compatible smartphone available in the market, but now is expected from other companies to release LTE-A compatible models very soon.

According to SK Telecom, they are expecting that approximately half or more than half of its new customers, this year will chose the new LTE-A network instead of LTE services.

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