World's first successful urban trial of LTE technology

Professor Holger Boche of the institute said to obtain data about LTE performance in an actual urban deployment environment, an LTE base station was installed at the top of the Heinrich Hertz building in the center of Berlin.

He said cars with LTE test terminals were driven up to 1km away from the base station to measure the LTE cell's coverage and throughput.

Head of LTE radio at Nokia, Matthias Reiss, said the company now has evidence that future LTE networks can run on existing base station sites and mobile operators can build LTE networks without requiring new antenna sites.

The base station, supporting LTE with a 2 by 2 MIMO (Multiple Input / Multiple Output) antenna system having 120 degree sectors, has been installed to support continuous testing activities over the next year.

It transmits with 20MHz bandwidth in the 2.6GHz band, it is the spectrum in this band that will be awarded to mobile operators in the next few years.