Following yesterday's news of Singtel and Ericsson to begin trials of LTE Broadcast and voice over Wi-Fi calling, Singtel has now also announced that it will begins trials of LTE-Advanced later this year. These trials of LTE-Advanced will be conducted in collaboration with Ericsson and Samsung.
LTE-Advanced, also known as tri-band carrier aggregation, is a step up from the current dual-band carrier aggregation LTE networks that Singtel is using. The technology provides bandwidth using three spectrum bands to deliver higher performance.
New phones supporting this technology are expected to be available later this year and users can also expect to enjoy peak downlink speeds of up to 450Mbps - or 50% more than the current maximum 300Mbps. This would translate to faster web browsing and downloading of data.
As part of this collaboration, Ericsson will provide Singtel with its LTE-Advanced technologies and hardware, whereas Samsung will provide devices supporting LTE-Advanced.
According to Singtel, trials of LTE-Advanced will begin in Q2 2015 and will be progressively deployed over the next two years.
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