Since my last post I have been surfing the Internet looking for a commercial LTE basestation that would satisfy the bandwidth-hungry applications such as HD video conferencing and HD video streaming. Motorola seems to be the only company that has gone beyond the minimum requirements defined by 3GPP release 8. It is indeed a smart move.

More specifically they are now offering a basestation that can transmit with up to 4 antennas and receive on 8 antennas. While this falls short of what is needed Motorola seems to be on right track. I would not be surprised if we soon see an offering with up to 12 or more antennas on the receive side.

Bravo to Motorola for this kind of forward thinking