LTE the Only Road to Wireless 4G in China

Published on: 1st Jan 1970: 1:33am

Although competing 4G technologies will come to the fore in other countries, LTE will be the only route to 4G wireless service in China, reports In-Stat. TD-LTE, one of the two flavors of LTE, will receive much more support than LTE-FDD in China. In 2010, China Mobile will use TD-LTE to construct a pre-commercial LTE network.

"China Mobile will be the first operator to launch commercial LTE operation," says Anty Zheng, In-Stat analyst. "This will happen in limited areas in 2011. China Telecom and China Unicom will, we believe, follow China Mobile's lead."

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

• 2009 is the first year of China's 3G era in which three 3G technologies (WCDMA, CDMA2000, and TD-SCDMA) have been adopted by separate operators.
• In-Stat predicts that China's LTE subscribers will number no more than 500,000 by 2013, and that 80% of these will be China Mobile subscribers.
• China Unicom and China Telecom will begin LTE network construction later than China Mobile, likely in 2012.

 

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