The invention provides a network expansion method and a network expansion evaluation device, which relate to the technical field of communications and are applied to cell network expansion. The network expansion method comprises the steps: obtaining a busy-hour RRC (Radio Resource Control)maximum connection number X, busy-hour eNodeB successful response times Y, a busy-hour downlink PRB (Physical Resource Block)utilization rate Mand busy-hour downlink data total throughput N of a to-be-evaluated cell,and average call duration Q of a voice service of an existing network cell; according to the X, Y and Q, calculating to obtain an RRC maximum connection number X' of the to-be-evaluated cell after VoLTE (Voice over LTE)is opened; according to the M, Y, Q and N, calculating to obtain a PRB utilization rate M' of the to-be-evaluated cell after the VoLTE is opened; if the X' is larger than a preset downlink RRC user connection number threshold and the M' is smaller than or equal to a downlink PRB utilization rate threshold, additionally configuring a user connection number for the to-be-evaluated cell; if the M' is larger than the downlink PRB utilization rate threshold, transferring preset parts of services of the to-be-evaluated cell based on FDD LTE(Frequency Division Duplexing Long Time Evolution) network.