A breakthrough of chipmaker Qualcomm and netwerkbouwer Ericsson takes calls via 4g closer. Thanks to a new technology can be a phone call uninterrupted to continue if the user does not have 4g coverage.
Until now, calls over 4g lte networks is difficult, because there is still no good standard for is. Smartphones with lte switching back to 3g to make a call. To call via 4g to make it possible, there are still various problems to be solved. So it was until now not possible to have a bellend an area with 4g coverage to leave, because the conversation is then aborted. Now that problem is solved by Qualcomm and Ericsson, reports Cnet.
Because the technology does not separate chips for the processing of 3g – and 4g signals are required, it means that the implementation of this technique, smaller and more fuel-efficient smartphones. In the United States, where lte-smartphones for about a year on sale, is the limited battery life of lte one of the biggest causes of complaints by users.
Lte is not yet widely operational in the Netherlands. All providers, including new telecom provider Tele2, have tests done on a small scale. Probably let lte networks in the Netherlands is still on hold for some time: the required frequencies for only this fall will be auctioned, after which the networks should be built. It is unclear when Dutch providers for the first time services over lte to offer, but it will probably not for 2013 or 2014.
Qualcomm shows his technique for uninterrupted calling through 3g and 4g for the first time on a test device with a MSM8960-soc. That will see for the first time during telecombeurs Mobile World Congress at the end of this month in Barcelona takes place.