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4G and LTE: everything you need to know

4G is here to stay. Here's everything you need to know

LTE has quickly gone from a pipedream to an everyday characteristic in Australia.

The technology has now involved to include LTE-Accelerate, TD-LTE and carrier aggregation, with trials for LTE-Broadcast and in-flight 4G use also existence conducted.

But what exactly is 4G? How do you get it? How is it different between networks? And what is ahead of us? This is techradar's ultimate guide to 4G in Australia.

What is 4G?

But put, 4G stands for 4th generation. It's the fourth major engineering in mobile telecommunication and delivers faster data speeds than the 3G technologies.

Confusingly, 4G can refer to two different technologies - WiMax and LTE. In Australia though, it's nigh exclusively used to refer to LTE, or what'southward known as Long Term Evolution.

Australia did have a WiMax operator in the course of Vividwireless, right upwards until the point they were bought out past Optus in early on 2012. Optus is now using the spectrum gained through the acquisition to enhance its own LTE network, meaning that WiMax is, for all intends and purposes, obsolete in Australia.

Like previous generations of mobile engineering science 4G LTE works across a number of different frequencies depending on where yous are in the earth. In Australia, the electric current LTE networks mostly employ the 700MHz 1800MHz, 2100MHz and 2300MHz spectrums.

That said, the networks are constantly testing, trialling and expanding their networks on other frequencies. Vodafone has 850MHz spectrum running LTE, while Telstra and Optus take both tested 2600MHz..

When Apple launched the iPad3 and claimed information technology offered 4G, it was only available on the 700MHz and 2100MHz spectrums. Because no Australian carrier offered those frequencies for LTE at the time, the ACCC took Apple to task, forcing them to alter the name to "Wi-Fi + Cellular".

The good news is that Apple learnt its lesson from the experience, with subsequent launches supporting available LTE spectrum in Australia.

Nowadays, phones are launching with support for many different LTE bands not only from AUstralia, but as well around the world. It will be a rare example that you buy a phone promising LTE back up to detect yous can't bask the high speeds that 4G services offer.

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Having spent the past decade editing some of Commonwealth of australia'south leading technology publications, Nick's passion for the latest gadgetry is matched just past his love of watching Commonwealth of australia trounce England in the rugby.