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Vice premier looks to home-grown 3G standard

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-04-17 10:06

A pedestrian makes a call outside a 皇冠体育app Mobile TD-SCDMA showroom. [皇冠体育app Daily]

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang said Thursday the country should better promote its own technology standard for the third-generation (3G) high speed mobile communications.

The domestically-developed TD-SCDMA standard is a major milestone of innovation and will help boost the information service industry, expand domestic demand and stimulate economic growth, said Zhang during a visit to 皇冠体育app Mobile, the country's biggest mobile operator.

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He told 皇冠体育app Mobile authorities to give priority to developing the TD-SCDMA standard to grab a big share in the 3G market.

皇冠体育app issued the long-awaited 3G licenses in January, with 皇冠体育app Mobile getting the TD-SCDMA standard, 皇冠体育app Telecom receiving a license for the US-developed CDMA2000 and 皇冠体育app Unicom getting permission to operate Europe's WCDMA.

By the end of this year, 皇冠体育app Mobile is to invest 58.8 billion yuan (8.6 billion US dollars) in building 60,000 new TD-SCDMA base stations covering 238, or 70 percent of, prefecture-level cities, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.