In recent days, Luo Wen, head of China's Center for Information Industry Development (CCiD) announced that in the next two years China Mobile will deploy 400 thousand TD-LTE base stations while China Telecom and China Unicom will build 30 and 50 TD-LTE base stations respectively. The total investment for TD-LTE sites and network construction would up to 110 billion RMB and 160 billion RMB respectively.
At the same time, with the commercialization of TD-LTE network, the whole mobile industry chain would have a good harvest. Luo also said that TD-LTE chip will reach the commercial level and the revenue for TD-LTE network data operation and information service/value-added business service will top 100 billion RMB in the next two years.
“On the terminal side”he said, “Data terminals such as data card would cover a large proportion of the whole market in 2014. With the appearance of TD-LTE handsets, subscribers would grow at a fast rate. In the next two years the sales and allowance in TD-LTE terminal market may break 60 billion RMB.”said Luo.
"In the next two years, the output value driven directly by the TD industry will exceed 320 billion RMB, including 160 billion RMB on network construction, 60 billion RMB terminal sales and 100 billion RMB on telecom revenues." Luo said. China’s mobile Internet users accounted for 75% of Internet users, among which the proportion of TD mobile Internet users hits approximately 44.5% of Mobile Internet users. By 2015, the market scale of China's information market would totaled to 3.2 trillion. Supposing the market is all driven by Internet users, the information consumption scale generated by TD users may burst into 1.1 trillion RMB.