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TECHNOLOGIES & PRODUCTS

China Mobile and ZTE Corporation

launched a live 5G field test

Conducted in Guangzhou University Town, which is one scale commercial use of 5G in the future."
of the most typical high-traffic scenarios, China Mobile ZTE and China Mobile have already carried out exten-
and ZTE launched a key 'pilot field' for enhancing user sive collaboration in the 2G, 3G, and 4G fields, and
experience in 5G eMBB scenarios, using ZTE's 3.5GHz even more so in the 5G field. In 2016, ZTE signed a 5G
NR base station product. For the next stage, multi-site strategic cooperation memorandum with China Mobile,
networking tests will be deployed to test wireless cover- and ZTE's ground-breaking Pre5G Massive MIMO base
age, throughput, mobility, delay, and other 5G network stations were deployed in the existing network of China
indicators. Mobile. In February 2017, ZTE, Qualcomm, and China
Mobile jointly announced that they planned to conduct
As one of China Mobile's strategic 5G partners, ZTE ac- interoperability tests based on 5G NR specifications
tively responds to China Mobile's 5G strategic needs by and over the air (OTA) field tests to facilitate large-
providing a full range of products, including 5G radio ac- scale rapid verification and commercialization of the 5G
cess networks (RANs) and virtual core networks (VCNs). NR technology.
In addition, ZTE has been providing full support in the
research on key technologies, definition of product speci- The international provider of telecommunications, en-
fications, and testing of pilot networks to guarantee the terprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mo-
fulfilment of strategic goals. bile Internet, ZTE, plays a leading role in the verification
of 5G technologies and the development of 5G prod-
Bai Yanmin, general manager of ZTE's TDD and 5G ucts. By adopting the development of 5G as its core
products, said: "This 5G field test jointly conducted by strategy, ZTE is expected to invest billions of dollars in
Guangdong Mobile and ZTE indicates that ZTE has 5G R&D before 2018, and boasts more than 2,000 5G
made a step forward and plays a significant role in driv- R&D engineers worldwide. ZTE has always promoted
ing 5G evolution from laboratory testing to commercial 5G standards. In 2017, ZTE initiated and played a lead-
use. A multitude of key technologies, solutions, and net- ing role in the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
work models will be verified on the pilot network. Through project, a core 5G NR project. ◊ By MediaBUZZ
detailed field tests, we can discover and solve the poten-
tial problems, and gather more experience for the large-
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