MWC: TD-LTE boosts market confidence

The World Mobile Communications Conference (MWC), the most important exhibition in the field of global mobile communications, was held in Barcelona, ​​Spain. The five-day conference brings together all the advanced technologies, solutions and applications from 2G to 4G in the field of mobile communications, and can be considered as an indicator for the industry. At this year's World Mobile Communications Conference, both ZTE, Huawei, and TD-LTE led and promoted by China Mobile have highlighted the strength of China in the field of communications. Barcelona is a long way from Beijing, but MWC is very close to Beijing.

"China" is eye-catching

At Barcelona Airport, visitors to the exhibition will be able to see the Ericsson, ZTE and Huawei reception desks. Only these three companies have set up temporary reception desks at the airport.

The small reception desk reflects the status quo of the industry. Ericsson, ZTE, Huawei’s position in the airport and the communication equipment in the industry lamented by many insiders left “Love, China, and China” (Ericsson, ZTE, Huawei ) The joke coincides. At the MWC exhibition site, Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei were even more eye-catching and attracted the attention of the industry.

Huawei launched the world's first 10GE LTE base station router at this World Mobile Communications Conference, demonstrating Beyond LTE technology that is more than 20 times faster than existing LTE commercial networks. ZTE launched the world's first LTE-A dual-band dual-carrier commercial base station and successfully demonstrated a multinational high-definition video service based on LTE network with Swedish Hi3G. At the conference, Huawei held the first Broadband Forum, the Broader Way forum, and proposed that "Broadband is the driving force for social and economic development." Shi Lirong, president of ZTE Corporation, made a keynote speech on “Drive Mobile Communication Technology” at the forum of the conference... The momentum of ZTE and Huawei’s leading companies in the communications industry is gradually taking shape.

The activeness of ZTE and Huawei in MWC is based on the profitability of the company. Enterprises always talk about profits.

“In recent years, we have participated in the Mobile World Congress and we have received more and more key customers, reflecting that we are already the major suppliers in the global operator market.” Hou Weigui, chairman of ZTE Corporation, said in an interview in Barcelona, ​​“ The current growth rate of the entire telecommunications industry exceeds the growth of global GDP, which indicates that the industry is dynamic.” According to him, ZTE’s growth in 2011 was the fastest in the industry, and ZTE’s revenue increased by 30% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2011. Among them, the government-enterprise network business grew by 90% year-on-year, terminal business grew by 50%, service business grew by 40%, and the fiercely competitive wired and wireless communication equipment business still grew at a rate of 5%-6%.

Xu Wenwei, president of Huawei's enterprise business unit, revealed at the Mobile World Congress that Huawei's total operating revenue for fiscal year 2011 increased by 11% year-on-year to more than US$32 billion, further narrowing the gap with Ericsson, the world's largest maker of wireless network equipment. It is reported that Ericsson’s sales for fiscal year 2011 were SEK 227 billion (approximately US$34.5 billion), and Huawei’s total operating income for fiscal year 2011 exceeded that of Alcatel-Lucent, another competitor, by 50%.

Hou Weigui told the media: “Now, fewer and fewer peers are present, reflecting the concentration of manufacturers. This industry will be the 'remaining one of the kings'.” He particularly emphasized that ZTE should enter the top three industries in wireless communication equipment, and the other two The company is Ericsson and Huawei.

TD-LTE Convergence Industry

Not only did ZTE and Huawei promote the Chinese communications industry, but as China's standard for promoting development, TD-LTE brought very exciting news to the industry at this conference.

On the first day of the opening of the Mobile World Congress, the TD-LTE Global Development Initiative (GTI) initiated by China Mobile held the 6th LTE TDD/FDD International Summit in Barcelona. Including ITU Secretary-General Tuai, Li Yue, President of China Mobile Communications Corporation, Sanjay Kapoor, CEO of Bharti, India; Erik Prusch, CEO of Clearwire, U.S.; Xu Zhijun, Chairman of Huawei Technologies; Hou Weigui, Chairman of ZTE Corporation; Chairman, Qualcomm, Inc. More than 500 senior executives and elites from global communications industry, including Choubu and HTC CEO Zhou Yongming, attended the deluxe lineup to demonstrate the appeal of China Mobile and TD-LTE. GTI operators also jointly announced the TD-LTE scale deployment plan for the next three years at the summit: By the end of 2014, the global TD-LTE base stations will reach 500,000, with a population of more than 2 billion.

This target is ahead of ABI Research's earlier forecast - to install at least 500,000 TD-LTE base stations worldwide by the end of 2016, two years ahead of schedule.

At the meeting, Li Yue, President of China Mobile, stated that China Mobile has decided to build more than 20,000 TD-LTE base stations in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities in China in 2012 and upgrade the base stations in 2013. With the newly built approach, the total number of TD-LTE base stations has reached 200,000.

The development pace of TD-LTE will be significantly accelerated, and it is also urging the industry to accelerate. In addition to the second phase of TD-LTE trials in China, companies are also preparing for pre-commercial and commercial use of TD-LTE, and the pace of research and development of some new technologies is also accelerating to catch up with China Mobile's TD-LTE. schedule. During the conference, Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile announced the signing of a joint development agreement. According to the agreement, the two parties will launch a series of joint development and testing projects on LightRadio at the Alcatel-Lucent Stuttgart laboratory. ZTE released the industry's first TD-LTE multimode Pico base station.

The TD Industry Alliance has joined hands with China Broadcasting Corporation, Ixia, Dapu, Chuangyuan, and Wah Yuen to participate in the conference to reproduce the latest developments in TD-LTE commercial capabilities and the internationalized industrial chain. The TD-LTE booth will highlight the latest developments in the global commercial distribution of TD-LTE, the TD-LTE internationalization industry chain, the TD-LTE internationalization industry chain, TD-LTE standards and product development planning, and TD-LTE testing. The solution, the latest TD-LTE terminals, and products that meet the TD-LTE high-index crystal oscillator solution.

China embraces quad-core

China is a major mobile phone manufacturing and consuming country, but China currently does not have a world-class mobile phone company. This situation is slowly changing.

With some of the first-established telecommunications manufacturing companies gradually diverging from the mobile terminal business, the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei who want to be strong in the world of mobile communications will regard the terminal as their profit growth point and strategic business. At this year's World Mobile Communications Conference, both parties were heavily bombarded with heavy-weight products, creating a number of "most" in the terminal area.

In the urban area of ​​Barcelona, ​​near the fountain of the Royal Palace, a black Pegasus sculpture, which flies and flies, attracts people to stop. This is perhaps the most photographed exhibition at the World Mobile Communications Conference. It consists of several thousand Huawei mobile phones and was interpreted by Huawei as the president of Huawei's mobile phone product line, He Gang. “The desire to fly is just the reality of Huawei's mobile phones - opportunities and challenges coexist.” Of course, for industry insiders, the most shocking thing is that Huawei launched the "World's fastest, most compact quad-core smart phone Huawei Ascend D quad" with self-developed quad-core chips. Prior to this, only NVIDIA released Tegra 3, a commercially available quad-core processor. The World Mobile Communications Conference was the first appearance of its commercial quad-core smartphone.

In accordance with established practice, the most advanced upstream products in the communications industry are always the first to give the most complete R&D capability and brand premium capability to the entire enterprise. The Tegra 3 quad-core processor is the most advanced processor platform in the terminal industry. Android 4.0 is the latest operating system. At the show, ZTE Corporation, together with HTC and LG, introduced the world’s first quad-core smartphones featuring the NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor. The ultra-thin phone called Era uses the Android 4.0 operating system. Huawei’s move to launch its own quad-core chips is to change the image of “top-core and low-core” Chinese companies that are controlled by the upper reaches of the market, so that the global industry can re-understand Chinese companies.

HTC, a mobile phone company from Taiwan, China, clearly stated that it is a premium mobile phone and a first-rate brand. In this communication exhibition, HTC launched the HTC One series of smart phones, whether in the process, software, or hardware are currently the top products in the field of smart phones, which HTC One X is the most popular quad-core mobile phone assembly. HTC Chairman Wang Xuehong appeared at the MWC Conference and expressed to the media that as a young company, HTC will deepen user impressions with high-end new products, enhance itself with innovation, and break down competitors' patent barriers.

According to Gartner’s just-released global mobile phone vendor sales report, ZTE surpassed LG in the fourth quarter of 2011 to become the world’s fourth-largest mobile phone manufacturer. Huawei and ZTE are the fastest growing mobile phone companies in the world.