Huawei trialling commercial TD-LTE in Shenzhen

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 30 September 2011; 10621 views

The commercialisation process of TD-LTE in China has taken another step forward following the announcement of a joint trial based on the technology to be conducted by Sequans Communications and Huawei. The large-scale trial in Shenzhen will be conducted on China Mobile’s TD-LTE network deployed by Huawei, using devices based on Sequans’ TD-LTE chipset.

China Mobile has selected leading equipment vendors to deploy TD-LTE trial networks in six major cities in China and Huawei has been selected for the city of Shenzhen. Huawei is responsible for building and deploying Shenzhen’s TD-LTE network.

Sequans recently became eligible to participate in the China Mobile trials when its LTE chip technology won official approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) after passing a battery of tests.

said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO, said “Working side by side with Huawei on interoperability over the last two years, we now have UE chipset technology that is fully ready to support the important large scale trials of China Mobile as well as future commercial deployments.”