August 17, 2009 | WirelessWeek - As the wind vane of next-generation mobile broadband technology, LTE has become a focus in all telecom equipment exhibitions since 2008. Most major telecom equipment suppliers have demonstrated static LTE products and dynamic LTE service, indicating that the LTE industry chain has moved to an “expressway.”

However, from the viewpoint of hype cycle for networking and communications, LTE is still in the technology trigger phase and has not reached a level of large-scale commercial use. In addition, the global economic crisis has lagged the commercial application of LTE, more or less.

read more