HONG KONG, Feb. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The 9th GTI
Workshop scheduled from February 20th to
21st was held in Barcelona,
Spain before the 2014 GSMA Mobile World Congress. More than
130 delegates from 40 international operators and 30 OEMs,
including China Mobile (0941.HK), SoftBank, Sprint, Vodafone,
Huawei, ZTE, Sony, Samsung and Qualcomm attended this Workshop
making in-depth discussions on key technical solutions and
innovative service applications for the commercialization of
TD-LTE.
In 2013, GIT has made great breakthrough in promoting the global
deployment of TD-LTE and solving key problems in the industry
chain. 4G service has been commercialized in China, leading to a coming boom of global
TD-LTE market. Japanese operator SoftBank pointed out at the
Workshop that under the promotion of GTI, Japanese government
officially planned 3.5 GHz band for TDD in January 2014 and to finish the distribution by
this year. Besides SoftBank, other Japanese operators including
DoCoMo and KDDI will obtain the spectrum and launch commercial
TD-LTE-Advanced service in 2016. Indonesian WiMax operator PT
Internux introduced its migration to TD-LTE, which was regarded as
a catalyzer for the migration from WiMax to TD-LTE.
GTI announced its development plan of this year. According to
the plan, the global deployment of TD-LTE will be further promoted
and greater effort will be made to promote WiMax operators to
immigrate to TD-LTE. The convergence of LTE TDD/FDD will be
advanced and traditional FDD operators will be encouraged to deploy
TD-LTE. Besides, GTI will advocate more emerging operators to
obtain TDD frequency bands and deploy TD-LTE. GTI will also enhance
the development of some key products and technologies such as
low-cost terminals, VoLTE, global roaming and RCS. In addition, a
new Innovative Industry Application and Business Model Working
Subgroup will be established to engage in the research and
development of LTE-featured industry applications and business
models.
In terms of 4G terminals, Sony made the global debut of its
5-mode 13-band smart phone at this Workshop -- indeed an
eye-catching one. The research progress in 5-mode 13-band smart
phones was also shared. This multi-mode multi-band terminal is
suitable for the majority of mainstream frequency bands with global
roaming capability and expected to hit market in Q2 2014. MediaTek
showcased the MT6595, a premium mobile solution with the world's
first 4G LTE octa-core smartphone SOC powered by the latest
Cortex-A17™ CPUs from ARM®. It will be commercially available by
the first half of 2014, with devices expected in the second half of
the year.
Operators also discussed the requirements for the convergence of
LTE TDD and FDD and Carrier Aggregation (CA) at this Summit. They
expected to rely on GTI constantly to promote the maturity of
TDD/FDD converged products and operation. CA, beamforming and other
new technologies and products will be further matured to improve
the performance of TD-LTE and provide users with more premium
high-speed data service.
Jointly founded by China Mobile and other leading international
mobile network operators in 2011, GTI has become a leading, most
influential platform to promote the global deployment and
commercialization of TD-LTE as well as the maturity of this
industry. Focusing on the key areas for TD-LTE commercialization,
GTI has set up a complete working group system covering network,
terminal, spectrum and service, and made groundbreaking progress in
these fields. After the joining of China Telecom on this
February 13, GTI has now 73 partners
and 100 operator members. Under the promotion of GTI, 28 commercial
TD-LTE networks have been launched around the world, and more than
40 operator members are planning and constructing their commercial
TD-LTE networks. GTI has been playing a more and more significant
role in driving the global deployment of TD-LTE, and fast
development of relevant technologies, products, business and
applications for TD-LTE.
SOURCE China Mobile Limited