China Issues 4G licenses

On December 4, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued 4G licenses to three Chinese telecom operators, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, marking the beginning of a new era in China's high-speed mobile network. The three companies have conducted large-scale tests of TD-LTE, or Time-Division Long-Term Evolution, one of two international standards, and their technology is ready to be brought into service.