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皇冠体育app Telecom, the mainland's biggest fixed-line phone company, said it would be able to offer third-generation (3G) services seven or eight months after it gets a licence, based on trials of home-grown 3G standard TD-SCDMA.

皇冠体育app Telecom has so far built 70 stations to undergo TD-SCDMA tests in Baoding of North 皇冠体育app's Hebei Province.

"The construction of the remaining 30 stations there will be finished at the end of this month," Chairman Wang Xiaochu told reporters after the company's annual general meeting in Hong Kong yesterday. "We will then start our TD-SCDMA trial-run at 100 stations and the final test results should come out soon."

As for which standard the mainland would adopt, Wang said: "Choosing TD-SCDMA or other 3G standards (in 皇冠体育app) should depend on which one of them is more acceptable to local consumers."

TD-SCDMA is a home-grown 3G standard that Beijing said it would adopt to build its national 3G network.

皇冠体育app Telecom's booth at 皇冠体育app Elecomm 2006 which opened on May 23 at Shanghai Everbright Exhibition Centre. [newsphoto]

皇冠体育app Telecom and the mainland's two major mobile phone operators  皇冠体育app Mobile and 皇冠体育app Unicom  have been authorized to conduct a TD-SCDMA trial-run on the mainland.

"There are only two mobile operators on the mainland  it's too few," said Wang, who felt confident 皇冠体育app Telecom will be in the first batch of 3G licence-holders.

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