At the recent Leadership meeting of 3GPP, the Technical Specification Group Chairmen sat down to discuss some of the Myths that surround LTE’s roll-out.

Is LTE Data Only? ...Does it support SMS? ...Is IMS a success? ...Can LTE complete emergency calls?

Here are the answers:

Valtteri Niemi (Nokia Corporation) has completed his third term as Chairman of 3GPP TSG SA WG3 and will now step down from the post, after the 57th meeting of the Working Group in Dublin, Ireland, 16-20 November.

Bengt Sahlin has been elected as the new Chairman, un-opposed.

Mobile broadband is continuing to grow at a fast pace due to the ever increasing introduction of new technologies, new networks, new devices and competitive innovation in the market.

On July 27, 2009 the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) announced that 7.2 Mbps had become the new baseline for mobile broadband globally, since at that time half of the HSPA networks in commercial service globally were capable of supporting a peak downlink data speed of 7.2 Mbps or higher, supported by almost 600 user devices capable of 7.2 Mbps or higher which had been launched in the market. Some HSPA systems support a peak downlink data speed up to 14.4 Mbps.

3G Americas, a market representation partner (MRP) in 3GPP, has highlighted the latest industry forecasts that there will be 458 Million UMTS-HSPA Mobile Broadband Connections Worldwide by the end of 2009.