BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Deutsche Telekom (NASDAQ:
DTEGY) today announced that they will collaborate on the first LTE
Direct operator trial in Germany. LTE Direct is expected to
be an operator owned platform that enables the next generation of
proximity based services. This platform operates in licensed
spectrum and relies on the LTE physical layer. LTE Direct is a
device-to-device discovery platform that enables the continuous
discovery of thousands of devices and services while maintaining
privacy and battery efficiency. Using LTE allows always-on and
autonomous discovery, which is scalable and provides a universal
framework for discovering and connecting proximate peers without
todays closed user groups.
Deutsche Telekom is working with Qualcomm Technologies to
participate in the trial to showcase LTE Direct's technology
benefits, which could reveal new market opportunities for mobile,
further enriching existing applications and services. "We are
participating in this trial because LTE Direct promises new
opportunities in the mobile ecosystem," said Thomas Kiessling, Chief Product and Innovation
Officer at Deutsche Telekom. "Teaming up with leading technology
companies to explore the full potential of LTE is decisive for
operators like us."
"The LTE Direct trial will be an excellent opportunity for the
application developer community to demonstrate a number of unique
applications and services working on LTE Direct," stated
Matt Grob, Qualcomm's Chief
Technology Officer.
The trial is an important step in driving the development of the
ecosystem and enabling commercialization of the technology.
The upcoming trial would be enabled by trial devices from
Qualcomm Technologies, Samsung, and LTE Direct enabled base
stations. Standardization of LTE Direct in a 3GPP Release 12 is
expected to be completed at the end of this year.
For more information and to see a demonstration of this latest
LTE Direct development platform, please visit the Qualcomm
Technologies booth during Mobile World Congress 2014 (Exhibit Hall
3 #3B64), February 25-28 in
Barcelona, Spain or visit
www.qualcomm.com/research/projects/lte-direct.
About Qualcomm Incorporated
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G
and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated
includes Qualcomm's licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority
of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along
with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm's engineering,
research and development functions, and substantially all of its
products and services businesses, including its semiconductor
business, QCT. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and
inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications,
linking people everywhere more closely to information,
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About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated
telecommunications companies with more than 131 million mobile
customers, 33 million fixed-network lines and over 17 million
broadband lines (as of September 30,
2012). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile
communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for
consumers, and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers.
Deutsche Telekom is present in some 50 countries and has over
230,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of
EUR 58.7 billion in the 2011
financial year – over half of it outside Germany (as of December
31, 2011).
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