Chinese industry experts say that China’s homemade fourth-generation telecommunication technology TD-LTE that can download over 150 megabytes per second will be used globally by 2015. This is probably true although it is worth bearing in mind that there has been no official agreement on the acceptable design of 4G.
However, the next-generation Time Division-Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) technology, currently under trial, promoted by the China Mobile Communications appears be pretty much 4G.
Chen Jinqiao, deputy chief engineer at the China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR), told China Daily: ‘Many international operators have contacted China Mobile and expressed willingness to adopt TD-LTE networks.’
He said the most likely partners in building the TD-LTE networks would come from Africa and Latin America.
The Times of India reported that compared with China Unicom’s WCDMA and China Telecom’s CDMA2000, China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA did not do well in the 3G market which is why it has moved so quickly to 4G.
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