Huawei 4.5G (TDD+) Awarded GTI Outstanding Contributions for Innovative Solution and Application and Innovative Technical Product

[Barcelona, Spain, February 24, 2016] The Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) Awards 2015 presentation ceremony was held during the Mobile Word Congress (MWC) this year. Huawei won the awards of outstanding contribution in the innovative solution and application as well as innovative technical product categories. These awards lend prestige and recognition to Huawei’s progress in 4.5G (TDD+) technological innovation, commercial implementation, and E2E industry growth.

Huawei’s 4.5G(TDD+) won the GTI award of outstanding contribution on innovative solutions and application Presented by Mr. Li Zhengmao (left), Executive VP of China Mobile, to Mr. Veni Shone, President of TDD Product Line, Huawei

Huawei began investment into LTE TDD evolution research in 2013. By September 2014, Huawei had partnered with the China Mobile Research Institute and taken the lead in the verification of related technologies. In June 2015, Huawei signed a 4.5G(TDD+) MOU with SoftBank Japan. A month later, collaboration with industry leaders China Mobile, SoftBank Japan, Qualcomm, and Audi led to Huawei’s launch of its 4.5G (TDD+) technology.

4.5G (TDD+) integrates multiple LTE TDD-based innovations such as Massive MIMO and D-MIMO, which fully incorporate the use of LTE TDD high-frequency bands and multi-antenna technology for a range of advantages. 4.5G (TDD+) improves spectral efficiency by over six times, supports Gbit/s-level peak data rates, and reduces latencies to 10 ms while enabling new service development and optimization. Since September 2015, Huawei and China Mobile have worked intensively on Massive MIMO and completed its verification on commercial networks in Shanghai. In addition to being a world first, this verification achieved a record 650 Mbit/s cell throughput for a single 20 MHz carrier.

In addition, Huawei has been proactive with 3GPP standards organizations for its related enhanced technologies. In 3GPP's full-dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO) research conducted in 2015, Huawei spearheaded efforts to enhance sounding reference signal, dedicated reference signal, and channel quality indicator technologies. Huawei’s contributions were highly recognized by the industry, and these technologies were standardized in 3GPP’s Release 13 to become key components of 3GPP LTE-Advance Pro (4.5G). Such enhancements are designed to unlock LTE TDD potential, where key technologies such as Massive MIMO improve system performance by over 50%.

Huawei tailors the evolution of mobile broadband networks to provide a feasible commercial E2E solution using 4.5G (TDD+) innovation. The 4.5G (TDD+) technologies are only provided after vigorous testing on commercial networks worldwide. Huawei was honored to receive two of three GTI awards presented in 2015 in recognition of its long-term commitment and wealth of industry experience.

Huawei Kirin 950 won the GTI award of outstanding contribution on innovative technical product Presented by Mr. Ted Matsumoto (left), Special Advisor to CEO, SoftBank, to Mr. Ai Wei , Fellow, Huawei

As a leading E2E integrated solutions provider, Huawei has dedicated years of chip, terminal, and antenna research to promote E2E industrial growth. Huawei Consumer Chipset has worked diligently on LTE chips and achieved major breakthroughs in LTE TDD chip design. In 2013, Huawei released Balong 720, the world's first LTE Cat6 chip, a year ahead of the industry for operators in Australia, Saudi Arabia, and China to deploy state-of-the-art LTE-A networks. In 2015, Huawei launched Kirin 950, the industry's first system-on-a-chip chip, boasting 16 nm FinFET plus technology. This chip improves system performance, standby time, and camera and location functions. Huawei released Balong 750, successor to Balong 720, in the same year. SoftBank Japan was first to implement this chip in its LTE TDD networks, significantly improving user experience and promoting LTE TDD evolution towards TDD+. Currently, over half of the LTE-A mobile phones in China use Huawei chip technology.

Huawei is committed to supporting GTI’s global development of the LTE TDD industry since its foundation in 2011. With the combined efforts of China Mobile, Huawei, and other industry partners, GTI is growing in size and influence. Today, 122 LTE TDD operators worldwide are affiliated with GTI, who is also partnered with 104 telecom vendors. 2015 saw 1.2 million commercial LTE TDD sites deployed to serve approximately 500 million subscribers, or half of the world's total number of 4G users. Huawei has successfully contributed to 120 of 162 existing LTE TDD networks. Among the 65 commercial LTE TDD networks, 46 were deployed by Huawei.

MWC 2016 takes place in Barcelona, Spain from February 22 to 25. Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at Fira Gran Via Hall 1 and Hall 3.