TD-LTE trial network in Japan

A fourth-generation trial mobile communication network based on China’s TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) is expected to be launched in Japan.
This follows the integration of China’s TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) standard into the specifications. The TD-LTE standard allows carriers to make use of the unpaired spectrum that many of them already own, and means improved and possibly less expensive electronic communications.
It is ironic that TD-SCDMA, which was considered the booby prize for China Mobile in China’s telecommunications industry, has morphed into a technology that will now be used as basis for a 4G trial wireless network.
The China-developed TD-SCDMA technology was originally seen as inferior. And mobiles using it were clunky. But it was homegrown and thus much less expensive. Now it seems to have been transformed into TD-LTE and blossomed.
China Knowledge reports the research institution Dell’Oro sees a TD-LTE market size exceeding US$6 billion in 2014.