Vendors must continue to innovate in order to successfully compete and the increasing carrier interest in the TDD version of LTE, TD-LTE, is a technology area ripe for differentiation. On this front, Nokia Siemens also this week announced that it has fully integrated TD-LTE with its existing mobile platforms including base stations and core networks.
The company also showcased the industry's first concurrent TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE demo. The co-existence of the two technologies is aimed at China Mobile, the number two operator in the world, which looks set to support both standards.
[This article originally appeared in Rethink Wireless]