Onset of 4G Era.docVIP

Onset of 4G Era 　　The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology （MIIT） on December 4 issued 4G licenses to the country’s three telecom operators—China Mobile， China Unicom and China Telecom. 　　They will adopt China’s homegrown 4G technology， Time-Division Long-Term Evolution （TD-LTE）. The MIIT said it will also issue licenses for Frequency-Division Duplex LTE （FDD-LTE） when the time is ripe. 　　As far as consumers are concerned， the 4G network will bring faster mobile Internet speed， which can be up to 10 times faster than the 3G network， more high-definition videos and more application