Tuesday, March 02, 2010

TD-LTE Advanced becomes Chinese 4G standard


March 2, 2010, After TD-SCDMA, Chinese hope their TD-LTE Advanced becomes another ITU-T standard. According to Mr. Wu,Hequan, the next generation wireless broadband technology project leader in China, Chinese TD-LTE advanced standard has been accepted as one of the 6 4G standard drafts of ITU-T.

In fact, TD-LTE Advanced draft was accepted by ITU-T last October in an ITU-T conference in German. Five other drafts from Japan, Korea, 3GPP, and IEEE were also accepted by ITU-T. It was predicted that ITU-T will make final selection in this October.

The same with TD-SCDMA, Chinese owns nearly all patents of TD-LTE-Advanced. The technology is based on TD-SCDMA, and was first introduced in year of 2004. After several years research work, the standard draft was generally accepted by the whole wireless communication industry in mainland China.

In this year’s Shanghai World Expo, a TD-LTE demonstration system will be build in the exhibition. Based on TD-LTE, many applications like wireless ticket will be provided. According to Wu,Hequan, China has also made arrangements on developing products of TD-LTE related chips, terminals, measurement instrument etc.

Not only Chinese suppliers show their interests on TD-LTE, Big wireless companies like Motorola also step into this field. For example, Motorola was one of the 2 equipment suppliers for the TD-LTE trial network in 2010 Shanghai Expo. Another supplier is Huawei. ZTE, Datang, Alcatel-Lucent, Erission also joined the bid for the trial network.

In year 2008, China Mobile , Verizon and Vodafone once announced to jointly develop TD-LTE technology in Barcelona. According to China Mobile, they have planed to deploy more than 100 TD-LTD base stations from the 2nd quarter of this year.

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