Yota (Russia) announced limited launch of LTE-A Rel.10 in Moscow

Yota Networks today announced the launch of LTE technology Advanced on a commercial network (not to be confused by the words - it is not commercial launch). LTE Advanced will allow data transfer rate up to 300 Mbps for the subscriber device. At this time the technology has been introduced at the part of commercial network in Moscow.

Managing Director Yota Networks Yegor Ivanov: "we run LTE Advanced ahead of other global operators, because the Yota Networks enjoyed by subscribers of several virtual operators (MVNOS), even more acute challenge match network capacity growing consumption data. 

Introduction of the most advanced telecommunication technologies are the only way to accomplish this task".

The first consumer devices to support LTE Advanced will appear in Yota Networks lineup in the first half of 2013. By this time Yota Network plan to deploy the technology on all of its commercial network. Partner Yota to introduce Rel.10 is Huawei, which is the main supplier of telecommunication equipment for Yota Networks.

There is 11 base stations involved in the launch LTE-A in Moscow. So it is look like pilot network for me. 

What is LTE-Advanced?

Good and detailed explanation of LTE Advanced. \\extremetech.com

1. Introduction 
2. LTE-Advanced's major new features
3. LTE-Advanced's new device and base station configurations
4. LTE-Advanced's shaift towards a cleaned-up, unified wireless spectrum
5. 3GPP Release 11, and the future of LTE-Advanced

11 Ways to speed up networks if U can not get more Spectrum

Better use of existing spectrum

1. Small cells
2. LTE-Advanced
3. Carrier aggregation
4. TDD-LTE

Better use of all spectrum

5. Spectrum sharing
6. Spectrum refarming
7. WiFi

Reducing the amount of data on the network

8. Compression
9. Cashing
10. Reducing Signalling traffic
11. Pricing and data caps

See in detaills at \\pcworld.com

Nokia Siemens Networks demonstrated 1.3 Gbits throughput over TD-LTE

It was showcasing LTE-Advanced in Arlington Heights, Chikago (ex-Moto) labs.

"Using our commercial Single RAN Flexi base station hardware, we demonstrated a speed of 1.3 Gigabits per second (Gbps) throughput over TD-LTE by aggregating 60 MHz of spectrum. At this speed, we were able to show how we can help operators meet their customers’ increased uplink capacity demand through a new LTE-Advanced feature, Multi User MIMO (or MU-MIMO). This demonstration replicated our recent record speed demo in Beijing, but used a different configuration of the 3GPP specification – config1 – and included MU-MIMO uplink capabilities". \http://blogs.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

That is really cool result, especially if we take into account that it was used commercial hardware.