Large-scale commercial trials of China’s homegrown 4G telecommunication technology will begin next year and commercial use may be possible by 2012, according to China Mobile officials.
Bill Huang, general manager of China Mobile Research Institute, said TD-LTE, the next-generation telecommunication standard that China Mobile is promoting, will see large-scale development in 2011.
Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile Communications Corp, said the company’s strategy in facing the challenges of the mobile internet era is to accelerate the expansion of the 3G network, start commercial usage of TD-LTE and increase the coverage of the Wireless Local Area Network.
The English People’s Online Daily quoted Wang as saying many international telecom operators have expressed willingness to adopt TD-LTE technology to build mobile broadband networks, including Poland’s Aero2, which hopes to deploy the world’s first commercial TD-LTE network in early 2011, and Japan’s Softbank Telecom.