LG to Provide LTE Equipment for NTT DoCoMo
May 01, 2009
Korea's LG Electronics announced that it has
been selected by Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo for the supply of 4G LTE
(Long Term Evolution) equipment, Telecoms Korea reported on April 27, 2009. NTT
DoCoMo is expected to adopt LG's data devices embedded with LTE modem chips
when the operator starts commercial LTE service in 2010. It is reported that
LG's LTE modem chip supports both TDD (Time Division Duplex) and FDD (Frequency
Division Duplex) technologies and is capable of sustaining 100Mbps download
speeds and 50Mbps upload speeds.