The Long-Term Evolution (LTE) race has begun in earnest at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Several vendors, Nortel Networks Corp. (NT) among them, are showing off their technology that lets people access the Internet while they ride in cars or buses throughout cities.
But Nortel says there are other advantages to its LTE platform, such as video calling, and multiplayer gaming. Pressing its point, the newly bankrupt equipment maker demonstrated such capabilities by connecting visitors to Mobile World Congress to LTE users in Bonn, Germany; Nortel said this marked the world’s first international end-to-end LTE connection.
Nortel combined its LTE infrastructure with phone maker LG’s LTE devices to stream video live between the T-Mobile booth at Mobile World Congress and T-Mobile’s Bonn headquarters.
Despite its financial troubles, Nortel is plowing ahead with its LTE strategies. The Canadian company highlighted as an example the completion of a high-def video streaming project in China. China is entering the era of 3G, Nortel said, and Nortel aims to saturate the Asian market as a result. (But we have to point out, isn’t LTE 4G technology? Just sayin’.)
