FEATURE TDLTE


The time has come for TD-LTE


China is renowned for its staunch commitment to home-grown technology, even if that technology is sometimes a hard sell. TD-LTE, however, is not such a hard sell and it’s gathering momentum worldwide.


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hina’s domestically developed com- puter processors may be 20 years away from competing with Intel and AMD,


but a stealth fighter unveiled in early 2011 has raised suggestions that the country’s defence technologies may be evolving faster than the world thought. The same could be said of TD-LTE, the Time Division flavour of LTE, which could turn out to be the country’s secret weapon.


Like 3G standard TD-SCDMA before it,


TD-LTE was thought likely at one stage to be a niche technology restricted primarily to China. TD-SCDMA failed to blaze a trail for its LTE descendent, suffering as it did from a lack of maturity, with even local carriers shunning the technology foisted upon them by the government. Yet TD-LTE has fared considerably better. As well as being widely adopted by the vendor


Pick ‘n’ mix


Potential TD-LTE spectrum frequencies: 790MHz 2100MHz 2300MHz 2500MHz 3300MHz


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