After one year 4G commercial services of China Mobile, China Mobile Shanghai branch has launched 10,000 4G base stations at present, and the total number of 4G subscribers has exceeded 2 million, while the average speed of road test reached up to 30Mbps, the 4G traffic data has also exceeded 2G/3G.
As far as C114 learned, the 4G network of China Mobile Shanghai branch comprehensively covers the main downtowns inside the outer ring, the suburb centers outside the outer ring, as well as the Shanghai free trade zone. According to the previous plan, in order to solve the problem of indoor Internet experience in a better way, China Mobile Shanghai branch will complete construction of another 4000 indoor distributed base stations by the end of the year.
In the term of network speed, the average speed of road test reached up to 30Mbps, which is 300 times of 2G and nearly 40 times of 3G and greatly enhanced user experience. In the regions that have launched carrier aggregation, the average speed in road test is even above 100Mbps.
The deputy general manager of China Mobile Shanghai branch Huang Gang said, “it took us 10 months to develop the first 1 million 4G subscribers, but only 2 months for the second million”.
In the term of devices that China Mobile Shanghai branch provides, they cover all the consumption levels and customers can choose conveniently according to their needs. Among the available devices, 60% are parity ones, the on sale 4G devices under 1000-yuan level reach 31 models in the China Mobile Service Hall and the lowest price is only 399 yuan. At the same time, devices that use China Mobile 4G network have exceeded 3 million in Shanghai area.
The data that China Mobile Shanghai branch released show that 4G data traffic was soaring rapidly month by month, and it breakthrough 600 million MB in October, which is equivalent to the data traffic of watching 1 million 2-hour HD movies, or downloading 60 million HD Music or reading 600 million E-books.
In October 2014, 4G traffic data exceeded 3G for the first time in China Mobile Shanghai branch, and exceeded 2G in November.