Mobile has become the preferred source of information sharing, and there is a continuous stream of new bandwidth-heavy multimedia applications to facilitate this transfer of video and data. Applications like interactive TV, mobile video blogging, advanced games, high definition multimedia and broadcast TV applications all require very high bandwidth and minimized latency to provide the optimal consumer experience.

These, and many more innovative rich media applications,have created the need for Long Term Evolution (LTE). This paper explores the drivers, expectations, anticipated deployment, and challenges presented by LTE.