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China Telecom will invest more than CNY 40 billion in 4G network construction in 2014

Updated:2014/7/16 10:38

On July 15, China Telecom started Tianyi 4G mobile phone services in the first 16 cities in China,  and customers in the 16 cities will be provide with the responding services, the 16 cities include Shanghai, Xian, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Jinan, Hefei, Shijiazhuang, Haikou, Zhengzhou, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Nanchang, Nanning, Lanzhou. This means China Telecom has gradually providing Tianyi all-covering 4G services, especially the most widely used 4G mobile phone services, becoming an important milestone in China's 4G development.

According to China Telecom’s introduction, tariffs of 4G packages varies from 59 yuan to 599 yuan, the data traffic increases 2 times at most compared with the 3G packages, and customers can save as high as 65% cost with the same services.

On June 27, the MIIT released FDD LTE trail licenses for China Telecom and China Unicom, permitting them develop integrated network trials of FDD LTE and TD-LTE in 16 cities. Two weeks later, China Telecom launched the 4G FDD LTE services, from which we can see that China Telecom is well prepared for FDD LTE.

China Telecom revealed, it will invest 40 billion in the Tianyi 4G network construction in 2014. And the China Telecom Shanghai branch said, its construction investment of 4G network is planned to reach 4 billion in 2015, with 80% of the fund put into the FDD LTE and TD-LTE dual mode network.

By the end of this year, there will be more than 4500 macro eNBs constructed by China Telecom in Shanghai, with a basic coverage of the urban districts of Shanghai. By 2016, China Telecom  will build 7000 outdoor base stations in Shanghai, covering 98% districts of Shanghai.

According to the plan, by the end of 2014, there will be about 70 China Telecom Tianyi 4G smartphones models in the market. 

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