To enable the mobile Internet, the International
Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Working
Party 5D launched the International Mobile
Telecommunications (IMT)-Advanced initiative,
seeking proposals from communication
standards organizations regarding 4G technologies.
They’ve received several proposals, mainly
based on two technologies: WiMAX, which
refers to the IEEE 802.16 family of standards,
and Long-Term Evolution (LTE), developed by
the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP;
www.3gpp.org).
