Up to 18% more bandwidth for mobile broadband users with spectrum sharing
The first spectrum sharing trial of the Authorised Shared Access (ASA) concept with live LTE network operating in the 2.3 GHz band has been demonstrated in Finland on 25th April. The trial was carried out by Finnish CORE+ consortium coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.The new approach allows the possibility of providing extra bandwidth easily for 4G networks. By enabling mobile services to share this band with existing services based on ASA, the overall available bandwidth for mobile broadband may be extended by 18%. To guarantee future reliable availability of