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Vice president of China Mobile expects TD-LTE will grow beyond imagination in 2015

Updated:2015/3/5 10:04

On the "TD-LTE GTI 2015 International Industry Summit" that was held during the MWC 2015, vice president of China Mobile Sha Yuejia said that TD-LTE development was amazing in 2014; and he believes that the TD-LTE development will be beyond our imagination in 2015.

"In the past year, 4G TD-LTE development was completely beyond our expectation, it took China Mobile only 1 year to build the world's largest 4G network." Sha Yuejia pointed out that China Mobile has built more than 700,000 4G base stations by the end of January in this year, which achieved continuous coverage of most cities and county towns, as well as hot spots coverage in developed rural towns. The operator sold over 100 million mobile devices and 4G subscribers have also exceeded 100 million.The DoU and ARPU also increased, in addition, China Mobile has opened 4G international roaming services with 71 countries and regions.

Talking about the development goals of 2015, Sha Yuejia said that China Mobile plan to complete construction of 1 million 4G base stations and achieve 4G full network coverage by the end of the year.It will accelerate to expand the LTE international roaming scope and strive to achieve 100% open of LTE international roaming services in available countries and regions.Meanwhile, the operator plan to achieve sales of 250 million devices, in which the 4G ones will be 200 million. In addition,China Mobile expect its 4G subscribers will achieve 250 million in total this year.

On the new network technologies, Sha Yuejia said that China Mobile will actively promote the evolution of 4G technologies and accelerate the maturity and commercialization of LTE-A, which will improve the network download speed from 100Mbps to 200Mbps, 600Mbps and even 1Gbps in the future. At the same time, China Mobile will promote the technology maturity of 3D-MIMO, big data network optimization, interference cancellation and others. The carrier will also actively promote the maturity of NFV, SDN and other technologies in the network level.

In the aspect of device technologies, he pointed out that China Mobile will work together with the industry to develop 4G Global Phone, allowing the user to travel around the world with only one device. In order to achieve this goal, China Mobile will further promote the supporting for TD-LTE/FDD LTE integration, which will support the mainstream modes and frequency bands and promote more devices and chips to support VoLTE, RCS, as well as key characteristics of LTE-A.

In the term of business, he said that China Mobile will continue to promote the rapid mature and commercialization of converged communication, and conduct business transformation.On the other hand, China Mobile will actively expand car networking, mobile health care, mobile education and other information service markets.

During the GTI summit, China Mobile also released three kinds of latest 4G products/solutions with industrial partners: China Mobile announced low-price 5-mode product solutions with five chip vendors, which cost only 50 Euro, these SoCs include Qualcomm 8909, Marvell PXA1908, MTK 6735P, Spreadtrum 9830A and Leadcore LC1860C; China Mobile also launched 6 Native devices and chip solutions with Samsung, HTC, Coolpad, Qualcomm and K-Touch, which support three new functions of converged communication and is for the first time, after the upgrade and layout of network, the users could experience more clear video and audio services, seamlessly integrated multimedia information and traditional news, as well as more social functions while maintaining their original communication habits and by using the original access of the devices.

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