In October 2010, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is scheduled to release the 4G International Standard after a further test and evaluation of the proposals for 4G Standardization.
ITU recognized LTE-Advanced and 802.16m as international advanced 4G standard proposals among six 4G technology proposals, which were submitted from China, South Korea, Japan, the European Organization for Standardization 3GPP and the North American Organization for Standardization IEEE, in the ITU conference. Two selected technology proposals will be analyzed, assessed and tested by the ITU on next stage, according to its working plan.
Next year, three meetings will be held by the ITU. According to its requirements, each assessment team is required to submit a preparatory technical assessment record by February. A meeting will be held to discuss the relevant technologies in 802.16m submitted by IEEE in the U.S. A., in January. Then each assessment team will run a simulated system to test the proposed technologies and assess their performance by applying a set of object criteria. The assessment teams will be hold meetings and submit the second-round assessment result, in June next year. In October 2010, the ITU will announce the final assessment result of 4G standard in a meeting, in China. Relevant standardization organizations will then formulate more specific system standards according to the assessment result.
Mr. Edward Lehman, managing director at LEHMAN, LEE & XU, expressed his commitment to China 4G development that “Now China’s TD-LTE-Advanced is likely to become the World’s main standard for 4G communications. If the Chinese 4G technology becomes standard, it is great opportunity for Chinese companies to save a lot in terms of costs on Intellectual Property Rights”.
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