Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is the project name of a new, high performance air interface for mobile communication systems. Developed by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), LTE is the evolution of the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) towards an all-IP broadband network. LTE’s evolved radio access technology—the E-UTRA— provides a framework for increasing data rates and overall system capacity, reducing latency, and improving spectral efficiency and cell-edge performance. It is documented in the 3GPP Release 8 and Release 9 specifications. This LTE overview gives some of the highlights . Pre-request: GSM, GPRS and EDGE Course CDMA and UMTS Course