As I was reading one of the 'Ericsson Review' issues on GSM/EDGE service evolution, It said "Multicarrier EDGE yields increased bandwidth. This is manifested by increased peak and meanbit rates both over the uplink and downlink."
Now, for a given time slots of maximum 8 for EDGE transmission in each direction (uplink and downlink), as GSM standard allows it, the transfer rate can be upto 480 kpbs. Now for increasing the bandwidth, we can employ multiple carriers, as I understood. Lets say, with four carriers and 8 timeslots each, the highest transfer rate would be like
2Mbps.Now, what might be the complexity for the operator to install multiple BTSs, (Base Transceiver Station) in same area for providing more time slots than that of 8? Does that mean we also have to upgrade our terminals/cell phone/EDGE devices that can recieve from more than 1 BTS? Will our terminals/phones need to have mulitiple transceivers?
TIA.
Raqueeb Hassan Bangladesh