Vodafone LTE Status: Traffic, Video, Carrier Aggregation, VoLTE, Video Broadcast

Some statements and slides from a recent Vodafone webinar on LTE (here):

• Carrier aggregation: Initial deployments in Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal to date; Speeds up to 300Mbps achieved

• VoLTE: We will begin enabling VoLTE in Europe from H1 2014 and deployed in many markets in next 12 months
   
• eMBMS - enabling the broadcast of video and content over 4G - 1st live eMBMS trials in Europe: Germany at Borussia Mönchengladbach's stadium (here)
   

• Many more evolutions of 4G to come:
   
• Network Function Virtualisation:  Migration of processing capabilities from dedicated network hardware to the Cloud
   
• Self-Organizing Networks: Automatic optimization of radio networks, improving voice & data performance