The latest news shows, the China Telecom intelligent ecological cooperation and terminal industry summit held today in Chongqing, the conference is also following this year in June the China Telecom announced the second strategic transformation of the 3 public appearances. China Telecom announced at the summit in 2016 to become the world's largest FDD operator.
It is understood that the China Telecom from 2014 was officially approved to carry out 4G network test, has now become the world's largest FDD LTE standard 4G service providers, 4G base station number reached 860 thousand, while last year the figure was only about 460 thousand. As can be seen from the number of changes in the time of the year, the China Telecom significantly accelerated the pace of laying the 4G base station.
China Telecom deputy general manager Gao Tongqing said, the China Telecom already has 550 million users, including 143 million broadband users and 212 million mobile users, 108 million 4G users and 60 million users surfing hd. Data show that in August this year, the China Telecom 4G users have exceeded one hundred million mark, and is still growing at a high speed, is now more to reach 108 million.
China Telecom general manager Yang Xiaowei said, will reach 1 million 150 thousand in 2017 the total number of 4G base stations, built the world's first 800MHz frequency low frequency based 4G network coverage coordination and implementation of high frequency current network, VoLTE supporting.
In addition, Yang Xiaowei also at the summit to clarify the direction of the future development of the China Telecom: the industry chain to create an intelligent connection, smart home, Internet banking, emerging ICT, Internet of things five business ecosystem.
