The 3GPP working group has announced that LTE has successfully completed the functional standard freeze period, and will officially ratify the standard within the 3GPP framework as 3GPP Release 8 within the wider standards family in March 2009.
With this development, LTE equipment manufacturers can now focus on fine-tuning the standard to ensure optimal performance under many conditions while carriers can proceed with early deployment plans without investing in non-standard equipment or worries of compatibility across equipment manufacturers.
“Will officialy ratify…in March 2008”. Shouldn’t this be 2009?
Duly noted and corrected.