China Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent as one of its three suppliers for launching FD-LTE driven mobile broadband services across China.
China Telecom, which competes with China Unicom and China Mobile in the domestic telecom market, aims to enhance performance as increasing numbers of consumers seek the extra speed, capacity and efficiency of LTE.
China Telecom currently has approximately 186 million mobile subscribers.
China Telecom will roll out its LTE mobile broadband access technology in 40 cities across 12 provinces, including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Liaoning.
Alcatel-Lucent will supply its 9926 eNodeB radio access network (RAN) portfolio and services during the first half of 2015. The network will cover 40 cities in 12 provinces, including Shanghai and Suzhou, cities with the highest GDP in China.
The deployment will help China Telecom extend LTE service coverage and capacity. Alcatel-Lucent claims that it has more than 75 customer deployments in 40 countries to date.
Luis Martinez Amago, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (ASB), said: “Demand for LTE is exploding in China, and with this rollout, we will help China Telecom launch services quickly and enable it to maintain its competitive position, offering its customers the ultra-fast broadband speeds and performance they are demanding.”
