Ma Hongbing, the chief radio expert of China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute, recently revealed that China Unicom has actively conducted mobile broadband leader strategy and built 4G base stations aggressively after the obtain of FDD LTE license, and the 4G base stations number will reach nearly 500,000 by the end of 2015.
Simply judging from the scale of base stations, this may be the world's largest FDD LTE network. China Telecom’s 4G base station construction is about 460,000 in this year, which is slightly less than that of China Unicom.