China's MIIT on December 4 announced the release of TD-LTE licenses to China Mobile, Chine Telecom and China United Network Communications. It means China enters new era of 4G mobile network.
It's reported thatChina Mobile has adopted TD-LTE as a sole 4G standard, while China Telecom and China Unicom will focus 4G on FDD (Frequency Division Duplexing) LTE with TD-LTE as an auxiliary standard. China is only expected to license FDD-LTE networks - China Unicom and China Telecom's favoured standard - sometime next year.
China, the world's biggest smartphone market, had 1.2 billion mobile users as of the end of October, 62.3 percent of whom are on China Mobile.
written by Nicolas Yang