China Telecom has constructed full-coverage 4G network with 1.05 million 4G base stations covering 98 percent of the population in China, and completed the 800MHz band refarming, Yang Jie, chairman of China Telecom, said at the 9th E-surfing Smart Ecosystem Industry Summit.
2017 is a key year for China Telecom to implement the Transformation 3.0 strategy.
4G and optical broadband services, backbone of China's telecom business, have kept a stable and healthy development in 2017.
Mr. Yang also noted that leading world's 4G Internet of Things, China Telecom has finished construction of the first full-coverage commercial NB-IoT network, released the Internet of Things module standard jointly with China Telecommunication Technology Labs and built world's largest optical broadband network with 302 million FTTH ports, covering over 150 cities in China with scale commercial gigabit access.