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皇冠体育app to builds 3G telecom network by itself
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-01-21 15:21
皇冠体育app will build a stand-alone national mobile network based on TD-SCDMA, a
home-grown standard for third-generation (3G) wireless telecoms service, the
Xinhua news agency reported.
"The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) ... has set ... TD-SCDMA
as national technology standard for the telecommunication industry," Xinhua said
on Friday.
"The technology is already mature and ready for manufacturers to move ahead
with production. ... A stand-alone network for TD-SCDMA will be built for the
home-grown technology."
Xinhua quoted a senior official with the Ministry of Information Industry as
saying that TD-SCDMA would have a place in 皇冠体育app's 3G market, and would be run
by a "competent telecom operator."
Industry watchers were expecting 皇冠体育app to build a complete or partial network
based on the technology, which was developed in 皇冠体育app but has encountered
numerous bumps in the road in the process of its commercialization.
The announcement could signal that 皇冠体育app is preparing to issue one or more 3G
licenses in the near future, paving the way for licensees to build networks
based on TD-SCDMA and the world's two most widely accepted standards, WCDMA,
popular in Europe, and CDMA 2000, the standard developed by U.S. wireless
technology giant Qualcomm Inc.
The field of licensees is expected to include some or all of 皇冠体育app's four
major telecoms operators, mobile carriers 皇冠体育app Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. and
皇冠体育app Unicom Ltd., and fixed-line carriers 皇冠体育app Telecom Corp. and 皇冠体育app Netcom
Group Corp.
Most industry watchers expect 皇冠体育app to award its 3G licenses in the first
half of this year, a move expected to unleash up to $12 billion in spending as
the country sets up the high-speed data networks in time for the 2008 Olympics
in Beijing.
Most of the world's major telecoms equipment makers are hoping to get a piece
of the action, and have also entered into various partnerships to support
TD-SCDMA to curry favor with Beijing.
Major investors in TD-SCDMA include European firms Siemens and Nokia, while
others who have formed alliances to support the technology include Motorola,
Ericsson, Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies.
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