Australia’s Telstra and its mobile network supplier Ericsson have completed a live network trial of a new LTE technology that essentially splices two entirely different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum together, creating a kind of super-connection to the mobile network.
Telstra isn’t the first to the use the technology, an LTE-Advanced technique called carrier aggregation. That honor goes to SK Telecom, which was able to boost its LTE network to 150 Mbps theoretical speeds in June by combining its 800 MHz and 1800 MHz spectrum, the same selection of airwaves held by European operators such as Everything Everywhere in the U.K. and in Germany, Deutsche Telekom. South Korea’s LG U+ followed SK’s lead in July with its own souped-up LTE systems.
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