China Mobile expects the number of its TD-LTE subscribers to reach 80 million by the end of 2014, far exceeding the original target of 50 million, and th enumber will reach 250 million by the end of 2015, according to company chairman Xi Guohua.
China Mobile will have a TD-LTE network around China supported by over 700,000 base stations by the end of 2014, accounting for 80% of all TD-LTE base stations around the world and exceeding original target of 500,000.
China Mobile expects to sell 230 million terminal devices, including over 100 million TD-LTE-enabled units, in 2014 and aims to sell 250 million terminal devices of which 200 million units will be of TD-LTE-enabled models in 2015.
China Mobile and Qualcomm, the main provider of smartphone chip solutions for the carrier, have separately signed with three China-based ODMs, Shenzhen Huiye Communications Technologies, Wingtech and Shanghai huaqin Telecom Technology, for development of 5-mode (TD-LTE, LTE FDD, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, GSM) smartphone models as reference design for international and China-based vendors.
Article translated by Adam Hwang
