China Mobile to Deploy ALU's Small Cells in TD-LTE Network

China Mobile will deploy Alcatel-Lucent's small cells solution in the world's largest TD-LTE network.

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.  The companies have completed small cell tests on high-traffic roads in the Zhejiang, Fujian, Liaoning and Shandong provinces and Downtown shopping Mall in Jiangsu.

China Mobile has also confirmed the selection of Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio Radio Access Network (RAN) as part of its TD-LTE mobile broadband network, and Alcatel-Lucent is providing 24 percent of the Evolved Packet Core for the network.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

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