[December 09, 2011] TD-LTE-Advanced May Become Sole Int'l 4G Standard Tweet BEIJING, Dec 09, 2011 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- The TD-LTE-Advanced technology is expected to become the sole international 4G standard next year. Zeng Jianqiu, a professor with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said at the MICC 2011 today that the TD-LTE-Advanced technology was expected to become the sole international 4G standard in 2012. Statistics show that the ITU invited all countries and their international communication standardization organizations to submit IMT-Advanced (4G) wireless access candidate technologies in February 2008. In the meantime, it invited all countries and international organizations to register assessment teams, an effort to make further analysis and assessment on candidate technology plans filed. In October 2009, it received six such plans from China, the 3GPP, the IEEE, Japan and South Korea. In detail, the one submitted by the 3GPP, the IEEE, South Korea's TTA and China each was the LTE-Advanced technology, the 802.16m technology, the 802.16m technology, and the TD-LTE-Advanced technology. The Japanese government filed two plans, including the LTE-Advanced technology and the 802.16m technology. After several rounds of assessments, 14 external assessment teams made both initial and final assessments on the six plans in accordance with requirements of the ITU-R. And the assessments on the TD-LTE-Advanced technology indicate that this technology not only meets but also has exceeded the business demand of the IMT-Advanced mobile telecom standard. Thus the technology, together with the LTE-Advanced FDD and the 802.16m technology, was selected as the international IMT-Advanced standards at an ITU-R WP50 conference in Chongqing in October 2010. However, the international 4G standard has not been finalized. Zeng reiterated that there was great possibility for the TD-LTE-Advanced technology to be formally selected as the sole international 4G standard by the ITU next year. And under such an environment, all mobile phone operating systems were likely to be unified on the base of a smartphone operating system platform. China ranked No.1 in the world in terms of mobile phone user number and had become the world's biggest mobile telecom market. Thus it should go with the global network convergence trend and transpose both the technology architecture and standard direction into the international ones. In addition, it should attach more importance to supporting homegrown mobile phone makers and based on preferential policies, the mobile phone makers were expected to form a unified mobile phone operating system. By then, it would successfully shift the made in China into innovated in China. Actually, both telecom operators including China Mobile Ltd. (SEHK: 0941 and NYSE: CHL) and chipmakers including Beijing Innofidei Technology Co., Ltd. have cast eye on the filed. (USD 1 = CNY 6.36) Source: www.c114.net (December 09, 2011) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]