EFYTimes reports that ZTE has upped investment in LTE technology, hiring some 900 R&D staff for TD-LTE alone. The company is investing RMB 6 billion to build a new R&D facility and production base in Xi’an, China, aimed at achieving its goal of developing and commercialising small-scale FDD-LTE solutions in the second half of 2009 and TD-LTE by 2010.