IMT-Advanced Becoming to Offer up to 600 Mbps

Working Party 5D (WP5D) of ITU's Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) finalized IMT technology in the recent meeting.

The Korea Communications Commission said that the ITU-R WP5D #2 meeting decided on spectral efficiency and frequency so as to offer up to the speed of 600Mbps with the next generation wireless technology. While IMT-2000 offers spectral efficiency of 1bps/Hz, IMT-Advanced would provide 15bps/Hz, said the commission.
 
As IMT-Advanced would use a 4x4 MIMO antenna system, it could offer up to 600Mbps on the 40㎒ band, added the commission. Those 3G technologies now in commercial use such as WCDMA and HSDPA offer 2Mbps and 14Mbps at maximum respectively.
 
The authority said that the WP5D decisions provided Korea with a chance to make its LTE Advanced and WiBro Evolution adopted as next generation technologies. The 3rd WP5D meeting is scheduled for October in Seoul, Korea.