FDD-LTE trial network has never been "license issued"

Tencent technology Guo Xiaofeng June 27 reports

FDD-LTE license release time again by the major media quarrel, there is news that "today's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will be issued to China Unicom and China Telecom FDD-LTE trial network license," Tencent learned from various sources, FDD-LTE trial The network has never had a "license to issue" this argument, it only approved by the Ministry of Industry agreed to carry out FDD-LTE test documents, and this approval was last month, China Unicom and China Telecom have been delegated.

License to issue the statement, only applies to FDD-LTE commercial license, but the specific release time is unknown. Informed sources told Tencent earlier this week that MIIT is still discussing when the FDD-LTE commercial license will be released two weeks ago and has not yet finalized its final target date yet is expected to be released in the third quarter.

Terminal ready

It is reported that during the Tianyi terminal fair held by China Telecom in Nanjing, various handset manufacturers have released the telecom version of 4G products. With the support of network mode, the words of FDD-LTE have appeared in the product parameters.

Yesterday, Hisense Mobile was the first to release a variety of telecom 4G handsets such as the I630T. It can be said that Hisense is the first mobile phone enterprise in China to launch telecom 4G products since the 4G strategy was officially released by China Telecom. Subsequently, ZTE launched Telecom 4G version of Young 2, Coolpad launched the dual-stick T1, this machine is cool and China Telecom Tianyi create a total of one of the new brand products, positioning thousands of markets, China Telecom is to open up 4G popular market, an important strategic product . Today, Huawei, TCL and other telecommunications 4G products will also be fully debut.

Earlier, China Telecom released only the 4G network TD-LTE wireless data card business, did not release 4G handsets, the release of the phone, the network mode almost all support four mode (CDMA \ GSM \ TD-LTE \ FDD- LTE).

Obviously, the rhythm of the product of the mobile phone manufacturer has already released the signal that FDD-LTE commercial has already not far away. According to the mobile phone manufacturers plan, this release of new products will be listed in succession in July, without certain FDD-LTE network as a basis, the so-called telecommunications version of 4G mobile phones can only be useless, which apparently does not meet China Telecom this Fair "Global 4G to see China, China 4G see Tianyi" theme.

Once the release of the FDD-LTE license, the impact of each mobile phone manufacturers also expressed their own views. Li Bin, executive vice president of Cool Tencent Technology, said that "the competition of operators is reasonable, competition is not necessarily a bad thing, such as operators of mobile phone manufacturers have high demand, so that can promote the ability to promote the role of FDD-LTE Licensing will have a certain impact on mobility, but I believe this is normal and there is competition for development. "

"The release of the FDD-LTE license has not yet been formally announced. It should be a good thing for ZTE. ZTE should do everything possible to prepare for it. You should be prepared to deal with it, no matter how the market changes." ZTE terminal China Wuhai new CEO said.

Terminal as the entrance of the mobile Internet occupies an extremely important part in the development of the network. China Telecom attaches great importance to 4G terminals and network go hand in hand. At the beginning of this year's CDMA terminal industry chain annual meeting, Wang Xiaochu mentioned that in 2014 China Telecom plans to sell 36 million 4G terminals, and the first half of this year will launch 4G smartphones.

China Telecom said that in 2014, Tianyi terminal industrial chain development goal is to add 270 3G terminals and 90 4G terminals throughout the year. Total terminal sales target is 100 million, of which 4G terminal sales accounted for 36%. In order to achieve this goal, China Telecom will step up its initiatives such as subsidy incentives and resource replacement with various sales channels.

Waiting for large-scale

Globally, the number of symmetric spectrum resources currently required by many FDD-LTE-enabled operators is very limited, resulting in a very limited network expansion. For operators that have both FDD and TDD spectrum, building an FDD- LTE and TD-LTE converged networks, not only improve and enhance the performance of existing FDD-LTE networks, but also take advantage of the characteristics of TD-LTE asymmetric spectrum to help operators make full use of all available spectrum resources.

For China Telecom and China Unicom, after getting a TD-LTE license that is not in line with their evolution at the end of last year, they have also begun to deploy the FDD-LTE network in an ambiguous manner. It is revealed that China Telecom has deployed 4G trial network in more than 60 cities in terms of network coverage and is expected to cover over 300 cities during the year. Unicom also secretly building FDD base stations in 56 cities.

Although FDD base stations were deployed at the time, they still lacks a piece of paper approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. This makes it impossible for China Telecom and China Unicom to launch their FDG-LTE trial with great fanfare and justifiably only to get the approval of the FDD-LTE trial last month.

Tencent technology has verified field found that in some cities in China, has begun to use ordinary users on the "stolen" Unicom FDD network. Such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Dongguan, Liuzhou and other cities in some areas have FDD network, but little coverage.

At present, the two are scrambling to expand the pilot scale to obtain the Ministry of Industry and Commerce commercial license as soon as possible.