SAN FRANCISCO – Qualcomm’s LTE Direct proximal discovery service is expected to become commercially available in 2016.
Speaking Tuesday at the Open Mobile Summit, Mahesh Makhijani, senior director for Qualcomm Research, fit the technology in with Release 12 and said its currently undergoing trials with Deutsche Telekom and KT. He said Qualcomm has LTE Direct partnerships in place with Yahoo, Control Group, R/GA, the Sacramento Kings and Radius Networks, in addition to the Facebook partnership Qualcomm announced in September.
