Long Term Evolution (LTE) is becoming an increasingly important technology around the world, so it should come as no surprise that the level of interest from various companies involved in the wireless technologies' segment, including here IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor, who've just announced a partnership to develop a suite of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key frequency bands ideally suited to global LTE deployments.

The first result of this partnership should be the world's first consumer friendly LTE USB modem, a device that will support multiple frequency bands including the 800MHz digital dividend band, 1800 MHz and 2.5 GHz. Subsequent devices will also support the entire US 700MHz and AWS frequency.

“IPWireless is a pioneer in developing and designing 3G and 4G wireless broadband devices” “Mobile broadband has become a strategic imperative for mobile operators as consumers now expect high-bandwidth applications, such as video and content-rich Internet, to run smoothly on their mobile devices. As such, operators are continually looking at ways to improve this service and increase both capacity and data speeds,” said Malcolm Gordon, Chief Operating Officer of IPWireless.

“By partnering with Altair Semiconductor to develop LTE modem devices, we are providing mobile operators and their customers with a high performance, low power solution that will satisfy the needs of consumers as LTE networks are deployed globally. Altair’s flexible chipset architecture enables us to rapidly develop devices that meet mobile operators’ growing demand for high quality LTE devices that support multiple spectrum bands, including the newly released 800MHz digital dividend spectrum band,” Mr. Gordon added.

“IPWireless is a pioneer in developing and designing 3G and 4G wireless broadband devices,” said Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development at Altair. "The combination of their innovative technology, product integration expertise and our patented software-defined radio 4G chipsets has allowed us to jointly develop one of the first commercial LTE modems for mobile operators looking to get a jump on deploying LTE networks and provide their users with an extraordinary experience.”

It's quite interesting to point out that we probably won't have to wait for this thing for too long, since samples of the device will be available by September, 2010, with commercial availability before the end of the year.

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