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What are the advantages of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) How we overcome NLOS (NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT). Wireless signals weaken over distance – a process called “attenuation.” This occurs in a step-like manner, where enough attenuation means the signal drops to progressively lower and lower levels, with each level down reducing the ability of the signal to deliver data. With trees in the way, blocking lines-of-sight, low power signals are both scattered and absorbed by leaves, modulating the signal down to useless levels. Unlike Wi-Fi, LTE was designed for outdoor wireless, not indoor wireless local networks. This means LTE signals are able to hold higher modulation levels in the face of more foliage, and do a better job of collecting all the various reflections off leaves to make sense of the signal. LTE does such a better job in fact that it holds about a 7 dB advantage over Wi-Fi on a per modulation basis, a massive benefit of LTE.