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Latest technology will change lives and work for people, says official By SHEN JINGTING shenjingting@chinadaily.迷你倉com.cn China is expected to become the world’s biggest Long Term Evolution (LTE) fourth-gener- ation market in the near future, even though the country is still waiting for i nal approval from the government regarding the issuing of 4G licenses.The country is about to embrace a critical phase for eveloping its LTE industry, said Wen Ku, director of the department of science and technology at the Ministry of Industry and Information Tech- nology, at an LTE forum held in Beijing on Monday.According to the vision from the Strategy and Implementa- tion Plan of Broadband China, China’s penetration rate of 3G/ LTE users will reach 85 percent — totaling 1.2 billion users by 2020. At that time, the nation’sLTE network will basically cov- er both urban and rural areas.“Developing LTE has become a trend worldwide and the Chi- nese government is handing out full support for it,” Wen said.Premier Li Keqiang said in an executive meeting of the State Council, the country’s cabinet, in July that China will speed up work to issue licenses for the 4G mobile network this year.Paul Jacobs, chairman and chief executive oi cer of mobile chipset maker Qualcomm Inc, expected China to become the world’s largest LTE market in less than i ve years as soon as the country’s regulator grants licenses for telecom operators.“The progress could move quite fast since China has already been the biggest smart- phone market globally,” Jacobs said in an interview with China Daily during the forum.h e entry of the LTE era will introduce a signii cant change in Chinese society and custom- ers will get the most benefits from the process, Jacobs said.“h e LTE technology is likely to change how people work, transform the healthcare sector and enable new ways for people to learn,” Jacobs said.Cher Wang, chairwoman of Taiwan-based smini storageartphone ven- dor HTC Corp, said the accel- erated commercialization and globalization of LTE will bring about a signii cant change in the economic landscape.“In addition, it will also bring a great opportunity to the devel- opment of the mobile industry chain,” Wang added. HTC man- ufactured the world’s i rst LTE smartphone and the company is preparing for the market launch of its i rst smartphone support- ing the Chinese homegrown Time Division-Long Term Evo- lution (TD-LTE) 4G standard.LTE is a common global telecommunication standard, that includes frequency divi- sion duplex and time division duplex modes for paired and unpaired spectrums.According to the latest data from the Global Mobile Suppli- ers Association, 213 LTE com- mercial networks had been deployed globally as of Sept 5, up 67 networks from the end of last year. Meanwhile, the num- ber of LTE global connections exceeded 126 million.Wen, from the Ministry of Industry and Technology, said the LTE 4G technology will act as a driver for China’s high-tech industry development. “LTE will provide a platform for inno- vation and help create oppor- tunities for many companies,”Wen said.h e State Council has issued guidance in August to call for boosting domestic information- sector consumption. h e coun- try hopes information use will become another key area of the economy after real estate and automobiles.However, LTE development will usher in challenges, as well as opportunities for China.“One of the major challenges is how companies can speed up innovation to bring innovative products to customers and the experience of the best value,”said Chen Yi, vice-president of mobile technology with Youku Tudou Inc, a Chinese online video company.LIU JIANHUA / FOR CHINA DAILY A China Mobile Ltd stand at an international software and information services expo in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The country is expected to have 1.2 billion 3G/LTE users by 2020.self storage