The 6th LTE TDD/FDD International Summit (GTI Summit) was taken place on Feb 27, 2012 during the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. This summit was hosted by GTI, a virtual open platform advocating cooperation among operators to promote TD-LTE global commercial deployment.

This Summit attracted over 1300 guests from various industries showing interest. Over 600 delegates including 170 delegates from 68 global operators attended.

Agenda 

• The Opening Speeches

  

  Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General, ITU

  This is the decade of the Mobile Internet

  ITU is looking forward to further cooperation with China MobileGTI. ITU has approved LTE Advanced including both FDDTDD. Billions of mobile subscriptions will broaden rapid development of advanced mobile technology such as TD-LTE Advanced.

  

  Sha Nansheng, Deputy Director General of Science & Technology Department, MIIT of PRC

  Chinese Government supports the industrializationcommercialization of TD-LTE 
  China will enlarge TD-LTE networkoptimize coverageuser experience focused services in 2012.

  

  Li Yue, President, China Mobile

  China Mobile will accelerate the TD-LTE deployment in China 
  In 2012, China Mobile will build more than 20,000 TD-LTE base stations in 9 cities in China. In 2013, China Mobile will build 200,000 TD-LTE base stations. Additionally, China Mobile will begin to provide LTE TDD/FDD services in Hong Kong this year.

  

  Sanjay Kapoor, CEO IndiaSouth Asia, Bharti Airtel

  LTE TDD would provide the speed for killer applications 
  Indias broadband will be the great essential part of development in growth. Bharti now have the 2015 vision to enrich lives of millions of peopleplans to roll out the TD-LTE service by end of March 2012provide commercial service within 2012.

  

  Erik Prusch, CEO, Clearwire 

  Clearwire has been revolutionizing the wireless industry around 4G 
  Clearwire is preparing to build the highest capacity LTE network in the US. Clearwire is planning to deploy LTE advanced ready network under the 2.5GHz TD-LTE standard configuration with 5,000 of LTE sites by June 2013 will be approximately total 8,000 sites.

  

  Ted Matsumoto, Chief Strategic Advisor to CEO, Member of Board, Softbank Mobile

  Softbank firmly believes that AXGP/TD-LTE will be the public success 
  The AXGP/TD-LTE network was launched in Nov 2011. Sep 2012, Softbank will launch AXGP/TD-LTE capable smart phones. By the end of March 2013, the population coverage of Japan will reach 92% with 13,000 base stations.

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• The Keynote Speeches

  

  TD-LTE in China: ProgressPlan

  
  

  Bill Huang

  General Manager of China Mobile Research Institute

  China Mobile

  

  Unplug Mobile Broadband Business & Service Innovation with LTE

  
  

  Erik Ekudden

  Vice President, Tech Strategies & Industry

  Ericsson

  

  Collaboration in a Wireless City

  
  

  Jason McLaurin

  Director, Mobility Sales – Global Service Provider

  Cisco

  

  TD-LTE Service Innovation

  
  

  John Dillon

  VP Marketing S3G

  Alcatel-Lucent

  

  TDD/FDD Network

  
  

  Jörgen Askeroth

  CTO

  Hi3G

  

  Wireless City Powered by TD-LTE

  
  

  Ran Fridman

  Head of Global Sales LTE

  Nokia-Siemens Network

• GTI Plan & Actions

        

  
  

  Delegates from GTI operators with major manufacturers launched GTI Plan & Actions, opened a new chapter for TD-LTE globla development. It represented the confidence of GTI operators geting together with global industries, jointly promoting FDD/TDD convergence, steppinga whole new TDD global scale commercialization ear.

  
  

  ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré, Deputy Director General of Science Technology Department MIIT of PRC Sha Nansheng、China Mobile President Li Yue, Bharti CEO Sanjay Kapoor, Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch, Softbank Chief Strategic Advisor to CEO Ted Matsumoto, Vodafone Group Networks Director Andy Macleod, Qualcomm Chairman Paul Jacobs, Huawei Hisilicon Chairman Xu Zhijun, ZTE CEO Hou Weigui, HTC CEO Zhou Yongming, Samsung Electronics EVP Dongjin Koh, Nokia Global EVP Colin Giles announced GTI Plan & Actions.

   
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• Product Release

              

  
  

  QualcommHuawei HiSilicon released their latest TD-LTE/LTE-FDD/3G/2G Multi-Mode commercial chipsets. It reveals the realization of FDD/TDD fully converged development,indicates that new generation converged smart phone will be available in 6~9 months. Therefore promoted TD-LTE global deploymentcommercialization.

   

• TD-LTE Exhibition

                         

  
  

  TD-LTE Innovation Exhibition includes GTI 1st Anniversary Achievements, various terminal chipset products, innovation network & test equipment,TD-LTE innovation service. Nearly 35 TD-LTE terminals & services were presented. TD-LTE/LTE FDD/3G/2G Multi-Mode chipsets were also employed. These chipsets will fulfill the availability of TD-LTE smart phone in 2012.

  
  

  ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Tourémany senior executives from global operators visited 
  TD-LTE Exhibition. TD-LTE rapid global industrializationmarketing development impressed all the VIPs.

  
  

  4G Innovation Robot made the best highlight during GTI TD-LTE Exhibition. It connects with the Cloud through the internal TD-LTE modules.

   

• Picture Galleries

                   

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