China Mobile will trial its TD-LTE networks in three cities in China in the second half of 2010, company vice president Sha Yuejia said at a technology seminar held in Taipei recently.
China Mobile plans to install 100 TD-LTE base stations in each of the cities, said Sha, without naming the cities.
Additionally, China Mobile, together with telecom equipment suppliers, is pushing TD-LTE technology to overseas markets, and prospects are high for non-China-based carriers to adopt TD-LTE as a 4G standard, according to Mohammad Akhtar, vice president and general manager, Networks, Motorola Asia Pacific.
With the support of equipment vendors and telecom carriers, the TD-LTE ecosystem is growing rapidly, said Akhtar, adding that TDD (time division duplexing) operators can fully leverage the spectrum advantages to build up their TD-LTE networks and therefore, accelerate the roll-out of TD-LTE infrastructures.
In other news, China Mobile had a total of 4.28 million 3G subscribers as of the end of February 2010, accounting for less than 1% of its 532 million total subscribers, Sha noted.
China Mobile posted net profits of NT$115.2 billion yuan (US$16.88 billion) on revenues of 452.1 billion in 2009, Sha revealed.
