Report on China telecom industry forecast to 2012

DUBLIN, IRELAND: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "China Telecom Industry Forecast to 2012" report to its offering.

China's telecom sector has been continuously witnessing considerable developments over the recent years. The country now owns the world's largest telecommunication networks in terms of both network capacity and number of subscribers.

The telecom industry has experienced double-digit growth over the past decade. And the recent move by the government, aimed at restructuring the domestic telecom industry following the issuance of 3G licenses in early 2009, has brought about a wave of rapid development and deployment of telecom infrastructure throughout the country.

According to our report on the sector called "China Telecom Industry Forecast to 2012", operators continue to invest billions of dollars into the development of world-class telecom infrastructure in the country, despite gloomy economic environment. The issuance of 3G licenses in January 2009 has initiated a wave of investments that has long been waited for.

We have found that the country continue to see fast addition of subscribers in its mobile, Internet and broadband sector. Meanwhile, declining trend has been seen in its fixed line telephony market and we expect same trend to continue in near future as well.

However, subscribers in mobile, Internet and broadband sector are forecasted to grow at CAGR of more than 8 percent, around 17 percent and 26 percent, respectively during 2009-2012. Their respective penetration rates will approach nearly 67 percent, 42 percent and 16 percent, by the end of 2012. Various factors which will drive this future growth have been thoroughly discussed in the report.

SySDSoft’s LTE protocol stack supports TDD for Chinese market

CAIRO, EGYPT: SySDSoft, a leading supplier of 4G embedded software solutions for the broadband market, announced the availability of its LTE Protocol Stack supporting TDD in addition to FDD, which has been demonstrated before.

SySDSoft’s LTE stack hence, offers chip makers, OEMs, and ODMs a real chance to increase their market shares in promising markets supporting unpaired spectrum such as the Chinese market.

“At SySDSoft, we are not only focused on the customer immediate needs, but we exceed this by having an outlook on the whole market to provide practical designs that fit with the entire ecosystem, which finally reflects on end-users experience”, said Khaled Ismail, CEO of SySDSoft.

“Our configurable stack offers chip and equipment manufacturers the flexibility and the freedom of choice between FDD and TDD modes. This is to assist them widening their customer base in massive markets adopting the TDD-LTE such as the Chinese market,” he added.

The 3GPP consortium has identified fifteen paired and eight unpaired spectrum bands for LTE. For all these bands, SySDSoft’s LTE stack has the flexibility to switch between FDD and TDD according to the type of the operator’s eNB.

The stack is a distinctive implementation of L2 and L3 of the 3GPP-LTE standard. The implementation includes MAC, RLC, PDCP, and RRC sub-layers with well-defined APIs to the upper layers.

Abstraction layers providing RTOS and PHY layer independence are also part of the deliverables. SySDSoft has demonstrated Release 1 last February and is planning to demonstrate Release 2 and 3 in Q2/Q3 2009.