Tag Archives: TD-LTE

China: 20,000 TD-LTE base stations in 13 cities by the end of 2012 and about 200,000 base stations in 100 cities launched in 2013 with the 2.6GHz TDD spectrum planning just started—SoftBank with TD-LTE strategy in Japan getting into global play with Sprint (also the 49% owner of US TD-LTE champion, Clearwire) acquisition

China Mobile TD-LTE tender results … [Communications World Network (CWW), Oct 16, 2012] According to informed sources, China Mobile has informed all the equipment manufacturers of the TD-LTE expanded large scale trial network tender about the results of the tender. … Continue reading

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MWC 2012: the 4G/LTE lightRadio network

Day 1: Alcatel-Lucent at MWC 2012 – lightRadio [AlcatelLucentCorp YouTube channel, Feb 28, 2012] Video of Day 1 at Mobile World Congress 2012. Booth tour, images from Telefonica’s press conference about their live LTE network with lightRadio, interviews and more… … Continue reading

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The ZTE way of capitalizing on the LTE opportunity

Recommeded prelimary reading: – Mobile Internet (Aug’11) [Aug 26, 2011] with a lot of additions to the original July 19, 2010 content on the following subjects: – LTE and LTE Advanced — HSPA Evolved (parallel to LTE and LTE Advanced) … Continue reading

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World’s lowest cost, US$40-50 Android smartphones — sub-$100 retail — are enabled by Spreadtrum

Updates: Spreadtrum selects CSR connectivity and Location for Smartphone reference designs [CSR press release, Feb 27, 2012] CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announced that Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD), a Chinese fabless semiconductor company, has chosen CSR plc … Continue reading

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China becoming the lead market for mobile Internet in 2012/13

Update: China government not expected to issue TD-LTE operating license for the time being [Jan 16, 2012] While China Mobile has been actively promoting TD-LTE, the China government is not expected to issue a TD-LTE operating license to China Mobile … Continue reading

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First real chances for Marvell on the tablet and smartphone fronts

especially because: Kinoma is now the marvellous software owned by Marvell  [Feb 15, 2011] Update [Aug 21, 2012]: ZTE’s U880 is based on Marvell’s then market leading PXA920 single chip SoC, and was introduced a year ago at a list price of … Continue reading

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Next-gen Snapdragon S4 class SoCs — exploiting TSMC’s 28nm process first — coming in December

Preliminary information: TSMC led foundries and their SoC customers against Intel [May 10, 2011] – Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs with a new way of easy identification [Aug 4, 2011] Updates: TSMC seeing tight capacity for 28nm processes [Nov 25, 2011] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing … Continue reading

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Good TD-LTE potential for target commercialisation by China Mobile in 2012

See also: Mobile Internet (Aug’11) which is a total update on Aug 26, 2011 with a lot of additions to the original July 19, 2010 content on the following subjects: – LTE and LTE Advanced — HSPA Evolved (parallel to LTE and … Continue reading

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China Mobile repositioning for TD-LTE with full content and application aggregation services, 3G [HSPA level] is to create momentum for that

Follow-up: – Good TD-LTE potential for target commercialisation by China Mobile in 2012 [July 13, 2011] See also: Mobile Internet (Aug’11) which is a total update on Aug 26, 2011 with a lot of additions to the original July 19, 2010 … Continue reading

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High expectations on Marvell’s opportunities with China Mobile

Follow-up: First real chances for Marvell on the tablet and smartphone fronts [Aug 21 - Sept 25, 2011] After the technical and business excellence well reflected in my previous posts Marvell seems to be on the high rise. See my previous … Continue reading

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