China Telecom formally joins GSMA

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: GSMA and China Telecom have commemorated a signing ceremony with the formal induction of the operator in the group. According to Sinclair, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at the GSMA, with its compelling, high-speed and cost-effective network architecture, LTE is bringing the GSM and CDMA communities together and GSMA is delighted that China Telecom has joined it and will be among the first operators to launch commercial LTE services.

More than 74 mobile operators from around the world have committed to plans, trials or deployments for LTE.

TeliaSonera in Sweden was the first to launch the commercial LTE network at the end of 2009. NTT DoCoMo in Japan is also set to join China Telecom and Verizon Wireless in deploying commercial LTE services by the end of 2010.