China Mobile eyes 250 million 4G customers next year

China Mobile, China’s largest telecommunication service provider, has forecast that it will have 250 million 4G customers in 2015.

The company has experienced robust 4G business growth in 2014 and had more 50 million 4G users as of the end of October, China Mobile chief executive officer Li Yue said on Friday.

China’s 4G is powered by the homegrown technology, Time-Division Long-Term Evolution (TD-LTE), one of the two major international standards in the mobile telecom industry, the other being Frequency Division Duplex.