Huawei Won the Outstanding Contribution Award in the“100-Day VoLTE Battle” Summary Meeting Held by China Mobile

[Shenzhen, China, July 19, 2016] At the "100-Day VoLTE Battle" summary meeting held by China Mobile on July 15, Huawei was at the top of China Mobile's overall vendor rankings and was given the Outstanding Contribution Award. To date, Huawei has helped deploy a commercial (or trial) VoLTE network, servicing more than 20 million subscribers in 25 provinces in China.

During the battle, Huawei quickly worked out a joint VoLTE deployment scheme, established a technical team of top specialists, and collaborated with China Mobile to complete 15 rounds of NE data configuration checks, 35,000 rounds of parameter adjustments, and added 40,000 pairs of neighbor cells in 167 cities or municipalities.

What's more, Huawei proposed the innovative "4-2-1" VoLTE experience improvement plan, formulated a 3-tier VoLTE KPI system to enable the VoLTE KPIs in each province to meet China Mobile's expectation. Huawei fully supported VoLTE number allocation and rapid subscriber growth in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Sichuan, Beijing, and Henan. Huawei has served more than 1 million VoLTE subscribers in each province and been highly praised by customers.

 The process of achieving the commercial use of China Mobile VoLTE network is complex, challenging, and significant

The VoLTE network of China Mobile is the world's largest one. China Mobile is working to implement the voice service evolution from 2G/3G networks to 4G networks covering the largest number of subscribers. In addition, the VoLTE network of China Mobile is also the most complex and challenging VoLTE construction project in history. The complexity of the VoLTE construction project lies in not only the technologies, but also the involved ten main network domains, large number of NEs, and various interfaces. The commercial use of the VoLTE project plays a key role in accelerating the development of networks, terminals, and standards.

Networks: China Mobile has built the world's largest VoLTE network, which demonstrates the successful commercial use of the VoLTE network with the largest network construction scale and the largest number of users. Currently, all 29 provinces with Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployed have put the VoLTE network into commercial use. The phase-one network design specifications allow tens of millions of users to be served.

Terminals: China Mobile has provided a wide range of VoLTE terminals, including high, medium, and low-end VoLTE terminals. In particular, China Mobile's A and N-series mobile phones also support the VoLTE network, which facilitates the popularity of VoLTE services. China Mobile can provide optimal VoLTE terminals in the world.

Standards: Since the establishment of the GTI organization, China Mobile has always been leading and promoting TD-LTE globalization and has made remarkable achievements. China Mobile released the VoLTE technology white paper in time, and launched out low-cost VoLTE chip solutions jointly with chip manufacturers. All these activities have injected strong impetus into the VoLTE development.

China Mobile and Huawei move forward and grow together

Huawei has provided full support for the development of the VoLTE network in terms of core networks, wireless networks, and VoLTE terminals and made multiple breakthroughs. For example, it connected the first VoLTE call in April 2014 and put the VoLTE network into commercial use for the first time in Hangzhou in August 2015. What's more, Huawei's VoLTE terminals also facilitate the spread of the VoLTE network. Huawei Mate 7 is the first type of China Mobile VoLTE terminals that have been put into the market for trial-commercial and commercial use. At present, a total of 7 types of well-sold Huawei mobile phones support large-scale commercial use of the VoLTE network, including the latest flagship mobiles P9 and P8 Plus.

Huawei integration service team, a technical team with a total of more than 2200 members engaged, coordinates different resources to create high-quality VoLTE networks. The integrated delivery ensures highly efficient commercial use of VoLTE networks. Since the first commercial use of VoLTE networks in Hangzhou in August 2015, Huawei proactively assisted 24 provinces in completing the trial-commercial and commercial use of VoLTE networks. Since February this year, the number of VoLTE account subscribers has increased by about 50 times, with the total number of VoLTE users reaching more than ten million. 

Huawei will continue to help China Mobile with innovation and industry transformation

China Mobile and Huawei are committed to building China Mobile's VoLTE project into the world's largest one with optimal user experience and providing first-rank network services for all users.

Huawei cloud core network will open up carrier-class video communication capabilities to third-party partners and vertical industries through capability openness based on China Mobile's strong network communication capability, and integrate industry resources to provide better services and applications for users. For example, by implementing the interworking between VoLTE terminals and the IP cameras or television sets, video services can be applied in wider areas. Huawei will explore the enterprise communications blue ocean and vigorously develop IoT with industry partners to help China Mobile to reach the strategic objective of 5 billion IoT connections by 2020.

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