Compared RF Performance of 1.4 MHz-LTE and EVDO rev. A in Rural Environments at 450 MHz

Since lower bandwidth implementations of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) 4G technology (1.4 and 3 MHz) are significantly less efficient, providers of wireless broadband rural access in the spectrally narrow 450 MHz band face the question of whether migrating to LTE can actually provide the desired and promised leap in performance, and whether existing and in many cases deployed 3G technologies such as 3G CDMA Evolution Data-Optimized (EVDO) may continue to offer comparable benefits. This work addresses this question via numerical simulations for a set of conditions aimed at defining a level playing field for fairly comparing these two technologies in terms of up and downlink cell aggregated throughput and range.