ZTE expands R&D team by 900, focusing on TD-LTE development
In a sure sign that LTE is gaining momentum, Chinese handset maker ZTE has hired 900 additional developers to focus on TD-LTE technology. The company is also investing Rmb 6 billion ($875 million) to build an R&D and production facility in Xian, China that will develop the LTE technology behind future 4G handsets. Using its already 2,000 member strong team of current GSM/CDMA/3G developers and an infusion of research funds, ZTE expects to commercialize, on a small scale, FDD-LTE technology by the end of 2009 and TD-LTE by 2010. With the first live test of LTE deemed a success and now a handset maker jumping onboard in a big way, LTE is starting to get interesting!
[via Tech-On!]
ZTE is also the company behind some of the initial XOHM WiMax hardware.
Whoa where did TD-LTE and FDD-LTE come from??
Two different flavors of LTE:
TD-LTE is a time division duplex (TDD) version of LTE that is backwards compatible with the Chinese 3G standard TD-SCDMA.
The rest of the world’s LTE is based on frequency division duplex (FDD).
That is all that I know about them. I do not know the details of how they are different.