LTE has been announced by NTTDoCoMo as a part of wider strategy to deliver new era of advanced mobile services . This includes building high speed , low latency , large capacity network implementing LTE from 2010. NTT DoCoMo is planning to invest US$ 3.6 B for their LTE network & expects to complete its nationwide rollout by March, 2013.Japan alone is poised to contribute 7.5 M LTE subscriber by 2013 as per Informa. This comes in light of committed investment from KDDI ( US$5.5 B) & SoftBank( US$ 3.5 B) taking total investments in Japan alone to US$ 12.5 B.
DoCoMo believes that LTE will enable a new era of advanced mobile applications. The characteristics of network (low latency, high speed & capacity) will optimize the allocation of functions between the handset & network. Devices & applications servers will therefore be more intimately linked. Trails have focused on live video , multi-user online gaming , user running simultaneously applications like HD-Video streaming & online gaming.
Source : NTT DoCoMo, LTE Asia Conf.
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