LTE wireless pilot project for GoM

Infrastructure Networks (INET) is planning to deploy a pilot LTE wireless broadband system in the Gulf of Mexico. The INET pilot deployment will be used to demonstrate the capabilities of industrial LTE wireless broadband service and coverage when coupled with 700 MHz spectrum INET leased from Verizon Wireless under the LTE in Rural America program. One of the advantages of LTE is its ability to provide wireless broadband service to moving vessels. INET’s study of existing communications options in the GoM it “became apparent that surface vessels operating offshore represented a large un-served market,” said Stanley Hughey, chief strategy officer of INET. The company plans to begin establishing substantial LTE network coverage over a wide area of the Gulf of Mexico upon successful completion of the pilot project. (Source: Cellular News 03/13/15)