Alcatel-Lucent has announced that its LTE solution has been selected by China Telecom for the operator’s nationwide trial of LTE network. In addition, China Mobile is also deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s small cells solution in the TD-LTE network. The deployment follows the award of China’s 4G license and the successful small cell trials in several high populated cities of China.

China Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) as a key piece of its new nationwide LTE network. Alcatel-Lucent will provide 9,892 base stations as one of the top three suppliers for China Telecom’s deployment of LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD technologies in 12 provinces in China.

China Mobile and Alcatel-Lucent co-created the lightRadio 9768 Metro Radio Outdoor (MRO), which was launched in February 2013 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As part of the trial, Alcatel-Lucent completed small cell tests on high-traffic roads in the Zhejiang, Fujian, Liaoning and Shandong provinces and Downtown shopping Mall in Jiangsu 

According to Alcatel-Lucent, it is also providing 24 percent of the Evolved Packet Core for China Mobile’s TD-LTE network.

China Telecom has more than 181 million subscribers, and is deploying its LTE network to help meet the ever-increasing demand for high speed mobile Internet in the world’s largest Smartphone market.