Telecoms Giant Places Big Bet that 4G Services Will Give It a Future

(Beijing) – China Telecom is promoting its fourth-generation (4G) wireless telecom services based on FDD-LTE technology in 16 pilot cities across the country.

The telecoms giant wants to gain a share of the 4G market and the confidence of investors, especially as its number of 2G and 3G users fell off in the first six months of the year. From January to June, China Telecom lost 5.34 million mobile users, its data show. The figure for June alone was 980,000.