As telecommunications operators and network engineers understand, specific operational requirements drive early network architectural and design decisions for 4G networks. However, they also know that technology, standards, usage practices, and regulatory regimes change continuously, which affects best practices. "4G: Deployment Strategies and Operational Implications" helps you stay up to date by providing the latest innovative and strategic thinking on 4G and LTE deployments. It evaluates specific design and deployment options in depth and offers roadmap evolution strategies for LTE network business development. Fortunately, as you'll discover in this book, LTE is a robust and flexible standard for 4G communications. Operators developing 4G deployment strategies have many options, but they must consider the tradeoffs among them to maximize the return on investment for LTE.