The key to LTE success? The GSM Association view is it will be the availability of unified TD/FDD devices.
GSMA director-general Anne Bouverot says it's “encouraging” that products containing TD-LTE chipsets are already on the market.
“But that's not enough to drive the market to scale. The key requirement for success is dual mode chipsets for TD and FDD LTE,” she said at today’s GTI Summit in Hong Kong.
“I cannot emphasise enough that dual chipsets are absolutely critical for the success of this industry.”
The LTE devices will need to be capable of being sold in multiple markets and to enable roaming, she said.
“We can't allow the industry to split again between technologies as we saw in the past,” she said, citing GSM and CDMA in the 2G era and W-CDMA, cdma2000 and TD-SCDMA in 3G.