China market: China Mobile inviting TD-LTE testing in 5 cities

Jun 10, 15:32

China Mobile is inviting voluntary users of its TD-LTE trial services for six months in Shanghai, eastern China, Tianjing, northern China, Fuzhou and Xiamen, southeastern China, and...

China Mobile to procure equipment of 200,000 TD-LTE base stations through open bid

May 7, 10:19

China Mobile will start an open-bid competition process as early as in mid-May to procure equipment of 200,000 TD-LTE base stations as well as equipment of 110,000 TD-SCDMA base stations...

China Mobile sets 2013 capex of CNY41.7 billion for TD-LTE

Apr 22, 16:09

China Mobile has set aside a capex budget of CNY41.7 billion (US$6.7 billion) for procurement of about 200,000 TD-LTE base stations and related equipment in 2013 to deploy its TD-LTE...

China Mobile to procure 1.24 million TD-LTE terminal devices

Mar 27, 09:52

China Mobile will initially procure 1.24 million TD-LTE terminal devices, consisting of 800,000 wireless Mi-Fi routers, 320,000 home-use CPE units and 120,000 dongles, according to...

MWC 2013: China Mobile unveils multi-mode, multi-band TD-LTE devices

Mar 1, 16:12

China Mobile, the largest mobile telecom carrier in China, unveiled multi-mode, multi-band TD-LTE terminal device models at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 in Barcelona, Spain...

MWC 2013: China Mobile unveils 4 TD-LTE smartphones

Feb 26, 21:31

China Mobile has unveiled four TD-LTE smartphones at the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013. The four models are manufactured by HTC, LG Electronics, ZTE and Huawei, respecti...

Acer chairman calls for government help for Taiwan makers to compete in TD-LTE market

Feb 22, 10:33

Acer chairman JT Wang, in his capacity as president of the Taipei Computer Association which organizes the Taipei Telecom Show 2013, at a speech made at the opening of the show on...

China Mobile to promote coexistence of FDD/TDD-LTE, says CEO

Jan 18, 15:55

While China Mobile is establishing TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) trial networks around China, the company will still promote the coexistence of FDD (Frequency Division...

Taiwan makers to face strong competition from Huawei in China TD-LTE market

Jan 16, 14:33

The China government is very likely to release TD-LTE licenses in the second half of 2013 and consequently China Mobile will procure a considerable volume of TD-LTE terminal devices,...

Taiwan makers look to global TD-LTE market beyond China Mobile demand

Jan 15, 21:37

While China Mobile CEO Li Yue will visit Taiwan to seek supply chain partners for TD-LTE, Taiwan-based terminal device makers and related IC design houses indicated that they will...

China market: China Telecom likely to adopt FDD LTE

Jan 4, 16:38

China Telecom, the only CDMA 2000 operator in China, is likely to adopt FDD (frequency division duplexing) LTE as its 4G standard because the company is undertaking FDD LTE tests...

China Mobile aims to sell over 100 million TD-LTE end devices in 2013

Dec 13, 21:41

China-based telecom service provider, China Mobile, has stated that its 2013 sales target for TD-LTE end devices is to exceed 100 million units and believes smartphones will account...

China Mobile setting up TD-LTE trial network in western China, says report

Dec 12, 13:47

China Mobile, the largest mobile telecom carrier in China, is establishing a TD-LTE trial network in Chengdu City, western China, with 1,200 TD-LTE base stations to be deployed by...

Five of 9 TD-LTE chip developers fail to meet CATR testing standards, says report

Dec 7, 15:46

Nine IC design houses participated in TD-LTE chip tests conducted by the China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,...

Sequans powers devices for China Mobile's TD-LTE network expansion

Dec 3, 11:18

Sequans Communications has announced that its chips are powering a significant portion of the LTE devices to be used in the next phase of China Mobile's large-scale trial of TD-LTE...

Spreadtrum TD-LTE modem to ship in Hisense datacard

Nov 28, 11:05

Spreadtrum Communications has announced that its single-chip multi-mode TD-LTE modem, the SC9610, will be shipping in a Hisense datacard that was awarded a portion of China Mobile's...

FDD-LTE currently more mature than TD-LTE, says NSN China president

Nov 21, 15:23

The development of FDD-LTE in terms of technology and supply chain is currently more mature than TD-LTE, according to Greater China president Markus Borchert for Nokia Siemens Networks...

M.gear to supply antennas used in TD-LTE base stations to China Mobile

Oct 23, 14:22

M.gear (Wha Yu Industrial) has entered the supply chain of China Mobile and will begin shipments of antennas for use in TD-LTE devices in late October, according to the company.

China Unicom likely to adopt FDD LTE, say reports

Oct 22, 10:58

China Unicom, the only WCDMA operator in China, may adopt FDD LTE as its 4G mobile telecom standard, according to China-based media reports.

China government plans to release 2,500-2,690MHz bands for TDD-LTE, says report

Oct 16, 13:41

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to assign 2,500-2,690 MHz frequency bands, a total bandwidth of 190MHz, for TDD-LTE mobile communications, according...

China may unveil frequency bands for 4G soon, says MIIT official

Sep 11, 15:13

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is likely to release frequency bands available for 4G mobile communication services as soon as the end of September...

China market: China Mobile hopes China Telecom will adopt TD-LTE, says report

Sep 4, 15:56

China Mobile, while having been promoting TD-LTE in overseas markets and preparing to start operations in the China market, hopes that China Telecom, the only CDMA 2000 mobile telecom...

Coolpad to ship LTE smartphones to MetroPCS

Aug 23, 13:29

Smartphone vendor Coolpad will begin shipping its FDD-LTE-enabled Quattro 4G to US-based telecom service company MetroPCS, making it the third China-based smartphone vendor managing...

Ericsson adds TD-LTE at its Taiwan IOT center

Aug 21, 13:47

Ericsson has added TD-LTE at its IOT (interoperability test) center in Taiwan to provide technical testing and certification services for both TD-LTE and LTE-FDD to Taiwan-based makers...

China Mobile to expand TD-LTE trial, says reports

Aug 8, 15:27

China Mobile plans to expand trial operation of TD-LTE networks from 10 cities to 13, adding Ningbo in eastern China, Chengdu in western China and Fuzhou in southeastern China, according...

China Mobile to procure TD-LTE devices

Jul 19, 11:16

China-based telecom carrier China Mobile will procure TD-LTE terminal devices based on open bid in late July 2012, according to tech.sina.com.

China Mobile to expand TD-LTE trial run

May 17, 10:09

China Mobile will expand trial operation of TD-LTE by setting up trial networks in four more cities in China, tech.sina.com has cited company CEO Li Yue as telling a shareholders...

China market: China Mobile to finish phase-2 TD-LTE trial

May 14, 16:29

China Mobile will complete second-phase trials of its TD-LTE network in mid-May, according to industry sources.

China wireless infrastructure investment to peak in 2014, says IHS

Apr 26, 01:00

Increasing expenditures on equipment intended to support the rollout of 4G LTE wireless services are expected to cause China's total spending on mobile infrastructure gear to peak...

China market: TD-LTE development likely to slow down

Apr 18, 11:29

China Mobile's development of the locally-developed TD-LTE may be forced to slow down as China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) may wait another two to three...