BEIJING, Apr 10, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- CHUFF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Top executives for China's three integrated telecom carriers disclosed their 3G network construction progress and plans for the near future at the 2009 Mobile Communication Industry Summit Forum on April 9.
China Unicom Vice President Zhang Fan said that the company aims to achieve seamless switch between 3G and 2G networks. The 2G network, which has been upgraded, will undertake the traditional voice business. As for the 3G network, all base stations will be deployed with high-speed downlink packages access (HSDPA) and high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA), with down-link speeds up to 14.4Mbit/s and up-link speeds up to 5.76Mbit/s.
Zheng Qibao, general manager for China Telecom strategy division, forecasted that the telecom operator's investment in base stations will leap 80% by the end of July 2009. Taking over the CDMA business in July 2008, China telecom saw its mobile phone subscribers increase 1.7 million in this February.
China Mobile plans to build approximately 140,000 TD-SCDMA new base stations in 2009-2011. The TD-SCDMA network is expected to cover 70% of the country at the end of 2009 and cover all Chinese cities at 2011-end. Totally, the number of TD-SCDMA base stations will top 160,000 by then.
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