M1 used equipment from Huawei; reached claimed speed through combining carrier aggregation, MIMO
Singaporean telecommunications operator M1 and Chinese vendor Huawei claimed to have successfully LTE peak download speeds of more than 1 gigabit per second and peak upload speeds in excess of 130 megabits per second.
The trial was carried out in M1’s LTE-Advanced test lab using existing commercial hardware infrastructure supplied by Huawei and a prototype Cat 14 LTE device. Huawei and M1 said they integrated four advanced network technologies: carrier aggregation, 4×4 multiple-input/multiple-output, higher order modulation 256 QAM and 2CC technology.
“Through technology innovation, we can further stretch the capability of current 4G technology, prior to the advent of 5G technology, to achieve an incredible peak download speed of more than 1 Gbps,” said M1 CTO Denis Seek, in a statement.
M1 ended the third quarter of 2015 with 1.18 million mobile subscribers, representing a market share of approximately 23%
Vodafone aims to launch ‘5G’ in Australia in 2020
In other APAC news, Australian mobile operator Vodafone expects to commercially launch “5G” technology in the country in 2020.
In an interview with Fairfax Media, Vodafone Hutshinson Australia CEO Inaki Berroeta said the operator’s other core priorities will be improving customer satisfaction and launching tailored mobile plans.
“We’ve spent a couple of years upgrading and improving our infrastructure,” Berroeta was quoted as saying. “We haven’t stopped and the pace at which we continue to improve our network remains and the reason for that is because we’re already looking into 5G.”
Vodafone has approximately 5.3 million subscribers in Australia. Vodafone Hutchison Australia was formed in June 2009 following a merger between Vodafone Australia and Hutchison.
