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Mobile, Vodafone, Bharti Airtel and SoftBank have joined hands to launch
five-year programme GTI 2.0, which aims to advance existing 4G technology and
industrialization of 5G technologies.“With the support and guidance of 5
chairman/CEO from top operators, Sunil Bharti Mittal (founder and chairman of
Bharti Enterprises), Shang Bing (chairman of China Mobile), Masayoshi Son
(chairman & CEO of SoftBank Group Corp), Chang-Gyu Hwang (chairman and CEO
of KT) and Vittorio Colao (CEO of Vodafone Group Plc), GTI 2.0 was officially
launched,” Bharti Airtel said in a statement today.GTI 2.0, a five-year
strategic plan and mission, aims to continue to promote the global development
of existing 4G technologies, TD-LTE and FD-LTE, encourage their convergence and
to foster a cross-industry innovative and a synergistic 5G ecosystem.In India,
Bharti Airtel has launched 4G service on both the technologies. Reliance Jio
Infocomm too has spectrum to deliver 4G services using both these technology
but it is yet to launch its services. Aircel and State-run BSNL have launched
4G service on small scale using TD LTE technology.Founded in 2011, GTI is platform
of 122 operator members and 103 industrial partners. Industry has completed the
GTI 1.0 mission by building an end-to-end TD-LTE ecosystem and achieving global
commercialization of TD-LTE as well as converged network which uses both TDD
and FDD LTE technology.By the end of December 2015, there were 76 TD-LTE
commercial networks in 43 countries, and 91 TD-LTE networks in progress, with a
total of 1.4 million TD-LTE base stations serving 470 million subscribers
globally, the statement said.“We have led the roll-out of TD-LTE in India and
are confident that it will emerge as the preferred standard for evolving mobile
technologies. We look forward to collaborating with the consortium partners
towards developing technology ecosystem for the future,” Mittal said.China
Mobile, world’s largest telecom operator said that it will fully support GTI
2.0 objectives.“It is important for the industry to continue developing 4G and
to work together to develop the standards for 5G technology ahead of its
expected commercial introduction from 2020 onwards,” Colao said.
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