Pros and cons of LTE technology

Pros of LTE

1. LTE decrease the traffic of communication in term of sending data.

2. LTE is focuses on voice over internet protocol (VoIP); therefore it can support more data capacity.

3. LTE increases the mobile broadband users by allowing more users to use the same frequency.

4. LTE facilitates the current applications to perform on better speed.

5. LTE uses the solution called “Orthogonal” to separate frequencies into different channel in order to protect the disturbance of each channel.

6. LTE offers faster data rate transfer as compare to existing 3G network equipments by using radio waves over the same bandwidth.

7. LTE can support voice and SMS text messaging using existing networks via Generic Access (VoLGA).

8. LTE no need rebuilding their entire networks from the ground up to allows wireless broadband providers to transition to this new technology.

Cons of LTE 

1. New equipments will be needed to be installed. Therefore, the start-up costs of service providers and consumers for equipment upgrades are too high.

2. LTE technology need to use additional antennas at network base stations for data transmission as stated that LTE uses a SC-FDMA 1×2 configuration. As a result to the network upgrades users need to buy new cell phones to make use of new network infrastructure.