HONG KONG -- 3 Hong Kong, the mobile communications division of Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong Holdings (HTHKH, stock code: 215), and Huawei have announced the successful demonstration of an end-to-end FDD and TDD LTE-A commercial network in Hong Kong using carrier aggregation (CA) technology and terminals chip-powered by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Demonstrating Hong Kong’s first end-to-end FDD and TDD LTE-A commercial network at yesterday’s press conference, 3 Hong Kong, Huawei and Qualcomm showed how an integrated FDD-TDD network can support innovative applications in the Internet of Things era.

It is the first time a mobile operator, a telecoms solutions provider and a chipset manufacturer have collaborated on an end-to-end FDD-TDD LTE-A commercial network in Hong Kong. They have also created the world's first FDD-TDD CA commercial network on IP radio access network (RAN) architecture.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.