In November 2007, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) General Assembly approved China Mobile Union’s proposed framework structure for LTE-TDD integration. LTE has various technical proposals divided into the two main categories of FDD and TDD. China Mobile’s integration proposal would integrate the LTE-TDD framework structure into a form compatible with LTE-FDD.
The LTE-TDD integrated standard has much more international participation than TD.
Nevertheless, supporters of the move are still in the majority. Integrating into the mainstream international standard is better than being just a Chinese standard.
The good news is that TD is merging with a mainstream standard. The bad news is that China’s telecom equipment manufacturers have gone from leaders in the 3G era to mere participants in LTE-TDD, and American and European manufacturers,
franklin and marshall, opponents to TD in the 3G era, have now become allies.
An outline of the plan Caijingobtained, indicates that the TD development process, which has deeply affected China’s telecom industry for the past ten years, will continue to exert its influence for the next ten years.
TD, even to this day, has been unable to put out competitive end-products. Its products have experienced a multitude of problems,
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For this kind of integration program, both sides had to make compromises and concessions. Li believes the proposal, "does as much as possible to retain China’s intellectual property rights and is very favorable for China."
“Europe had also been working on a TDD version of LTE. If two TDD programs were to emerge,
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TD’s biggest problem has been that this supposedly “international standard” was adopted only by domestic enterprises. The only exception is South Korea’s SK Telecom, which built a small, domestic TD trial network in 2007. But those familiar with the progress of the network say this was just a “gift” given for the purpose of entering the China market. Networks used by Korea’s domestic companies were all indifferent.
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The integration may have far-reaching implications for the development of China’s own standard. As Hou Ziqiang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Acoustics told Caijing, “The [4G] future is settled. China and LTE will unite and move forward together. The chances of China proposing its own [4G standard] are slim.”
“The central financial administration will mostly invest in the early stages of basic research,” a source close to the MOF revealed, “and product development and industrialization will mostly come from the market.”
Caijing confirmed from multiple sources that the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) will likely form a new body responsible for the coordination and organization of R&D efforts and to manage the use of state R&D funds. According to those close to the project, the details of the plan could be announced at the People’s Congress in March.
The transition from 3G to 4G will lead to a dramatic increase in data transmission speed from two megabits per second (mbps) to 1,000 mbps. If 3G took mobile phones to the threshold of images and video, 4G will bring them into an era of the superhighway where downloading full-length films will require only seconds.
Possibility of International Cooperation?
“A project of ten-plus years must always have a foothold, from which to develop” said Li Shihe, former chief scientist with Datang who is also dubbed “Father of TD”.
“TD acts as a mirror – it has objectively reflected China’s level of proficiency in telecommunications research, development and industrialization, and especially the government’s ability to organize implementation,” said Professor Lou Peide of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, “The most critical problem lies in how best to unite the government’s determination and the market’s choice.”
The research project “Next-Generation Broadband Wireless Mobile Communications Network”, which will stretch over 15 years, has already received the government’s backing. Premier Wen Jiabao approved December 2007 the project in principle,
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Concerns linger from TD era
Having multiple participants in the project is expected to bring a variety of technological possibilities during the evolution of China’s future 4G technology. Zhao Xinxiang, Angilent China engineer pointed to different approaches of Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers in their 4G strategy and direction as evidence of the potential.
Read more: Wiring China for the Next Telecom Era
“TD needs to understand that successfully breaking into the markets of developed countries is exceedingly difficult,” an MII official said,
franklin et marshall, “Operators will certainly choose the most mature, most industrialized and strongest technical standard.”
Read more: TD’s Hard Life in China’s Wireless World
By staff reporters Ming Shuliang and Ouyang Changzheng
“This isn’t a victory for TD,” a technology department manager at a Chinese telecom operator said, “In fact, it’s another step toward the marginalization of TD -- a homegrown international standard reduced to one unit of an international standard.”
Led by the state council, China is initiating a large-scale research plan for a 4G standard, successful development of which could shape the 4G landscape of China and beyond, as reported in Caijing Magazine’s recent cover stories “Wiring China for the Next Telecom Era” and “TD’s Hard Life in China’s Wireless World”.
On the new path toward 4G,
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China is set to embark on a massive research plan for the fourth generation (4G) telecommunications standard with a 70 billion yuan investment, but worries remain.
The composition of participants in the project is still unknown,
adidas adizero, but one thing is certain. Unlike Datang’s lone involvement in the development of the TD standard, China’s homegrown 3G telecom standard, there will be multiple participants – Datang, ZTE and Huawei among likely candidates – in the 4G technology R&D.
However, TD’s failure is a cause for concern for the 4G project.
It seems that the framework China has created for its 4G R&D is more open and advanced than that for the TD standard.
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