The data speed of indoor mobile network will be increased with the new development of Ericsson

The Swedish Telecom giant, the Ericsson expects that the 4G smartphones will be able to download data three times faster later this year with a little help from wireless spectrum usually used by Wi-Fi, the company announced Monday.

The Finnish firm sells network equipment to companies like Verizon and Vodafone that operate mobile networks. Those networks currently use the 4G (fourth-generation) technology known as LTE (Long-Term Evolution) that lets phones connect to the Internet and make phone calls. LTE today typically uses radio waves sent over frequencies that carriers license from the government at great expense. But later in 2015, Ericsson will expand LTE so it can send data over unlicensed spectrum open for anybody's use. Specifically, it will use the 5GHz frequency band also used by today's Wi-Fi network technology. (MTI)