China Mobile 'very likely' to expand 4G trials

China Mobile chairman Xi Guohua said it was “very likely” the operator would expand its TD-LTE trials this year.

It has run trials in five cities – Beijing, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen – since last year, and plans to build out another 20,000 base stations in ten cities this year.

This was likely to be expanded, “but it depends on how fast the total industry develops," he said.

Xi said the technology was working well but the bottleneck was at the device end.

“As long as we have the devices we can build out the base stations in a very short period of time, and we can also upgrade [the existing TD-SCDMA] network in a very short period of time.”

Mobile security becoming 'impossible': Bernabè

GSMA chairman Franco Bernabè sent a warning today about the dangers of the over-the-top (OTT) invasion.

“With emergence of OTT players means security and privacy are becoming increasingly challenging and in some cases impossible,” he said in his keynote.

He said the GSM industry had built in strong privacy and security protections since its infancy, and called on operators to “passionately defend the core elements that have ensured our previous waves of success.”

Blogging Shanghai - Mobile Asia Expo

Fifteen minutes after opening time. No sign of speakers, but plenty of people looking for seats.  The hall is about - about 500 people.

Plus nine security personnel - of the seven keynote Chinese speakers this morning, five are government officials, including the vice mayer of Pudong.

There's no shortage of sponsors, either. I count 32, topped by China Mobile. Only half a dozen are Chinese, a few Koreans and Japanese and the rest refugees from Europe and North America.

Here comes GSMA Chairman Franco Bernabe.

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