140 news items tagged TD-LTE
China Mobile requires 5-mode support for TD-LTE smartphones
Friday 14 March 2014China Mobile requires that all TD-LTE smartphones to be certified beginning May 31, 2014 support five mobile communication standards: TD-LTE, FDD LTE, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and GSM, according...
China market: TD-LTE chip market to expand robustly starting 2Q14
Wednesday 26 February 2014The TD-LTE chip market in China is expected to grow robustly starting the second quarter of 2014 as chipset vendors including Qualcomm, MediaTek, Marvell Technology, Broadcom, Intel,...
Taiwan government considering 2.6GHz band for LTE, say telecom carriers
Wednesday 29 January 2014The Taiwan government has considered assigning 2.6GHz frequency band units for either operating TD-LTE or TDD LTE and FDD LTE mobile communication services, according to local telecom...
China market: China Mobile, China Telecom aim to sell 100, 36 million TD-LTE devices in 2014
Friday 24 January 2014China Mobile and China Telecom, two of three 4G licensees in China, aim to sell 100 million and 36 million TD-LTE terminal devices, respectively, in the China market in 2014, according...
SerComm expects to ship 3 million PON units in 2014, says president
Friday 24 January 2014Taiwan-based networking/communication device maker SerComm shipped nearly two million units of PON (passive optical network) broadband equipment in 2013 and expects to ship three...
China beefs up TD-LTE promotion in 2014
Monday 13 January 2014China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), following the release of three TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) licensees to three major mobile telecom carriers...
China Mobile 3-mode TD-LTE smartphone procurement plan to benefit China-based suppliers
Monday 13 January 2014China Mobile originally planned to procure 5-mode (supporting TD-LTE, FDD LTE, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, GSM) and 10-frequency band smartphones but has decided to reduce the format specification...
Marvell 4G LTE solution adopted for ZTE TD-LTE smartphone
Thursday 9 January 2014ZTE's flagship Grand Memo LTE smartphone has achieved China Mobile TD-LTE certification with Marvell's multi-mode 4G LTE solution, according to the chipmaker.
Orders for 4G base station equipment to buoy TXC 2014 sales
Thursday 26 December 2013As China's mobile telecom carriers will speed up establishment of TD-LTE (4G) networks in China, quartz component supplier TXC is expected to enjoy a pull-in of orders which will...
China Mobile to procure about 100 million TD-LTE smartphones in 2014, says chairman
Thursday 19 December 2013China Mobile will procure about 100 million TD-LTE-enabled smartphones in 2014, company chairman Xi Guo-hua said at the China Mobile Global Partner Conference 2013 taking place in...
China market: Lowering 4G chipset specifications to benefit local smartphone vendors
Friday 6 December 2013China-based smartphone vendors are likely to continue enjoying the advantage they have gained from the sale of 3G smartphones for pushing sales of 4G LTE models as China-based telecom...
China releases TD-LTE licenses
Thursday 5 December 2013China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on December 4 announced the release of TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) licenses to China Mobile, Chine Telecom...
TD-LTE market developments and forecast, 2014-2016
Thursday 28 November 2013TD-LTE has become the mainstream global choice for the construction of 4G asymmetric frequency spectrum networks, with the GSA calculating that commercial TD-LTE services were already...
Mainstream prices for 4G terminal devices should be below CNY1,000 in 2014, says China Mobile president
Wednesday 20 November 2013As China Mobile is poised to start TD-LTE commercial operations, company president Li Yue has said that prices for 4G terminal devices are too high currently and mainstream prices...
Digitimes Research: ASPs of TD-LTE chips to remain stable initially as suppliers are limited
Thursday 14 November 2013While a number of IC vendors have begun shipping chips supporting TD-LTE, including base band chips, radio frequency chips, application processors, SoC solutions and soft modems,...
China Unicom to procure TD-, FDD-LTE equipment, says report
Thursday 24 October 2013China United Network Communications (China Unicom) has started an open-bid process for procuring 34,000 FDD-LTE base stations, 10,000 TD-LTE base stations and 8,000 FDD-LTE small...
China market: MIIT likely to assign bands to China Telecom and China Unicom for FDD-LTE, says China media
Monday 14 October 2013China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is likely to assign two 1800MHz band units, 1755-1785MHz and 1850-1880MHz, to China Telecom and two 2100MHz band units,...
China Mobile may procure 40 million TD-LTE smartphones in 2014, say Taiwan makers
Friday 11 October 2013As the China government will issue 4G licenses by the end of 2013, China Mobile is expected to kick off commercial operation of TD-LTE services in 2014 and therefore is likely to...
Digitimes Research: TD-LTE lags behind LTE FDD in global development
Monday 7 October 2013While China Mobile has successfully promoted TD-LTE - a China-developed version of LTE (Long Term Evolution) - as an international standard, TD-LTE has lagged behind LTE FDD (frequency...
More China-based smartphone vendors to join 4G competition
Monday 23 September 2013More China-based handset vendors including Tianyu Communication Equipment and Vivo will launch their first 4G models in the fourth quarter of 2013 as the China government is ready...
China market: TD-LTE smartphone sales to reach 50-100 million units in 2014
Wednesday 11 September 2013More entry-level TD-LTE smartphones are expected to hit the market in China soon, and the ASP of entry-level TD-LTE models will drop to CNY1,000 (US$163) in the second half of 2014,...
Digitimes Research: WiMAX 2.1 facilitates development of WiMAX toward TD-LTE
Tuesday 10 September 2013The WiMAX Forum at the end of 2012 approved WiMAX 2.1 which features harmonization with LTE-Advanced and thereby is compatible with TD-LTE. This will bring opportunities for existing...
TCL to start production of TD-LTE smartphones in September
Thursday 29 August 2013China-based TCL Communication Technology Holdings aims to enhance its presence in China's smartphone market by ramping up the production of TD-LTE models starting September, according...
China to start connectivity testing for TD-LTE devices
Thursday 29 August 2013The China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will begin testing connectivity performance of TD-LTE terminal devices...
MTI to start TD-LTE RRH production in early 2014
Wednesday 28 August 2013Taiwan-based microwave and satellite communications device maker Microelectronics Technology (MTI) has been developing RRHs (remote radio heads) based on TD-LTE mainly for the China...
- Altair Semiconductor launches TD-LTE chipset optimized for India market (May 7) - Company release
- Qualcomm to showcase TD-LTE wireless chip next year (Nov 17) - Wall Street Journal
- Motorola completes TD-LTE trials in China (Aug 6) - Cellular News
- Nokia Siemens Networks increases investment in TD-LTE (Mar 4) - Cellular News