China Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE solution for nationwide trial of LTE network and 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, Lteworld.org reported on Dec 12.

China Telecom has chosen Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) as a key piece of its new nationwide LTE network. Alcatel-Lucent will pro9,892 base stations for China Telecom’s deployment of LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD technologies in China’s 12 provinces.

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.

Alcatel-Lucent 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.