MWC: China Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone to Team on LTE Trials

China Mobile announced Wednesday that it will join Vodafone plc and Verizon Wireless to trial LTE.

The trials will focus on LTE FDD (the Frequency Division Duplex version of LTE) for use with paired spectrum allocations and TD-LTE (the Time Division Duplex version of LTE) as an evolution of current TD-SCDMA technology to enable the exploitation of unpaired spectrum globally The trials are designed to explore the performance of LTE with different spectrum types as a potential next generation mobile technology. They will provide an opportunity to adopt a harmonized access platform with global scale and high performance inter-working with the existing technologies of all three companies.

The availability of LTE FDD and TD-LTE systems will enable an effective and low-cost solution for both paired and unpaired spectrum.

Multimode devices will create regional and global roaming opportunities. This also raises the prospect of providing greater interoperability between different global operators offering customers greater convenience and seamless global roaming.

The LTE technology, which is still being tested and standardized is designed to deliver mobile data networks with higher speeds and throughput performance, lower latency, global roaming, and improved efficiencies. LTE is an evolution of existing 3G cellular networks (WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and CDMA) and has the advantage of offering inter-working with existing 3G technologies.

"Verizon looks upon LTE as a singular opportunity to align wireless carriers on a 4G technology which will support the desires of customers to have a common experience, with any device of their choosing, anywhere in the world. We look forward to working closely with China Mobile and Vodafone, sharing trial results, and ultimately planning compatible networks with them, and all the other worldwide carriers who are considering the deployment of LTE," said Richard Lynch, CTO for Verizon.

China Mobile http://www.chinamobile.com

About Vodafone plc www.vodafone.com

Verizon Wireless www.verizon.com

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