{"id":269276,"date":"2010-02-03T03:44:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/03\/japan-certifies-its-first-lte-device-lg-says-whoa-ours\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T03:44:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:44:37","slug":"japan-certifies-its-first-lte-device-lg-says-%e2%80%98whoa-ours%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269276","title":{"rendered":"Japan certifies its first LTE device, LG says \u2018whoa, ours?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.co.kr\/newsRead.php?no=455031\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/02\/lg-ld100.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In a country whose carriers&#8217; phone lineups are dominated by domestic giants like NEC, Sony, Sharp, and Fujitsu, you wouldn&#8217;t necessarily think that the road to 4G would begin elsewhere &#8212; strangely, though, South Korea&#8217;s LG has garnered the honor of becoming the first company to have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/LTE\/\">LTE<\/a> device certified by Japan&#8217;s TELEC, a necessary, FCC-like step to getting cellular equipment deployed in those parts. NTT DoCoMo, which intends to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/01\/ntt-docomo-will-demo-lte-prototype-at-mwc-launch-service-this-y\/\">launch commercial LTE service<\/a> later this year, is undoubtedly stoked to hear that the LD100 external modem is the lucky recipient of TELEC&#8217;s seal of approval (following FCC certification last year, coincidentally), meaning the carrier now has the green light to use it in trials. Considering that TeliaSonera&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/14\/teliasonera-launches-worlds-first-lte-network-awaits-phones-ea\/\">already beaten DoCoMo to the punch<\/a> with a live, customer-facing LTE network, are the days of being shocked and awed by Japan&#8217;s mobile tech drawing to a close, or are we just witnessing a little fluke here?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/03\/japan-certifies-its-first-lte-device-lg-says-whoa-ours\/\">Japan certifies its first LTE device, LG says &#8216;whoa, ours?&#8217;<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:33:00 EST.  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