In the 2014 New Generation of Broadband Wireless Mobile Communication Development Forum, director of the MIIT Communication Development department Wen Ku said in an keynote speech, the recent development of LTE in China is good, and will develop 60-70 million LTE subscribers in 2014; LTE subscribers in China are expected to reach 350-460 million in 2018, and the LTE penetration will reach 23% to 35%.
Wen Ku said that although 4G hasn’t developed for a long time, many countries have begun to accelerate the development of 5G, China also begins the deployment, initiatively set up the IMT2020 5G working group, joining up all the enterprises, colleges and universities and research institutes, the enterprises include manufacturing enterprises and operating enterprises, jointly discussing the situation of 5G, and support its development in the future.