China Mobile applies for FDD license plate for fusion networking test

According to media reports, during the two sessions, the CPPCC committee members, China Mobile Chairman Xi revealed that China Mobile has been to the Ministry of Industry and Information technology to apply for FDD license plate, the integration network test.

Recalling the February 27 China Telecom, Unicom issued LTE FDD licence, the Ministry of Industry's statement is, combined with the early LTE hybrid network test, according to the relevant enterprises, in accordance with the Telecommunications regulations and "Telecommunications business licensing management measures", after the application of enterprise financial capacity, Technical and operational capabilities of the comprehensive review, to China Telecom group and China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. issued "lte/fourth generation digital cellular mobile Communications Service (LTE FDD)" Business license, supporting the enterprise to integrate its own reality, to promote the integration of 4G development, promoting information consumption.

Visible, China Telecom and Unicom access to FDD LTE license is also conditional, the promotion of 4G integration development, is mapping the global communications industry, not simply the development of LTE FDD. The licensing of the industry in fact very far-reaching impact, this is not the water boiling communications that the--FDD licence is pot, only to pull the economy.

Comobs that:

1. To enhance international users to roam to the domestic experience, the domestic three operators will develop LTE FDD, China Mobile was issued FDD license is just on the way to the process;

2. This year, China Mobile develops 250 million LTE users, 1 million LTE base stations, LTE market share and good network coverage in the country, which indirectly facilitates international operators to consider adopting a converged network, at least explicitly supporting the development of multi-mode terminals including LTE, It is a very suitable point of time for the FDD licence to be approved;

3. China Mobile's aggressive LTE development status has indirectly promoted China Telecom and Unicom to receive FDD licences. The domestic 4G fusion development situation, cannot change LTE occupies the mainstream market the present situation, the application asymmetry frequency LTE, causes the international operator to carry on the Fusion group network to draw lessons from the domestic operator's development experience, the earlier licensing LTE FDD meaning is self-evident;

4. To lay the foundation for 5G Development, after all, 5G will use to TDD will also be used to FDD, so can not be forgotten, China Mobile as soon as possible FDD of LTE business is not a bad thing;

5. At present, China Telecom and the Chinese Unicom focus on the LTE FDD, but earlier than the one-year planning of TDD frequency, so that two operators in the integration of networking and terminal development in the long-term consideration of the existence of LTE, China Mobile How there is reason not to be issued FDD license, But the reality needs to consider frequency planning and interference and so on;

6. For China Mobile, even if the LTE FDD licence application has not been approved for three years (2015-2018 years), it will not be a hindrance to its development. However, in the future with the release of 2G frequency and 2020 global 5G commercial, the latest by the end of 2018 to obtain FDD license for China Mobile's own 4G development is not serious, but should consider the global view of LTE in the Fusion network model significance, As the leading LTE operators, the significance of early FDD is greater than late;

7. China Mobile once obtained batch Fusion network test, make from 4G network coverage, capacity, frequency choice aspect, will consider the mix network structure comprehensively, achieves the depth coverage and the wide area coverage optimization, the access mode interoperability can promote the terminal fusion development.

China Telecom and Unicom have spent nearly a year to apply for a FDD licence, a pilot scheme for the amalgamation network, and a FDD licence to be approved. Comobs predicted that if the industry development all determine factors, consider three operators of the balance of competition, China Mobile first issued LTE FDD licence time should be 2016 years.