[photopress:it_shenzhen_sunsky.jpg,full,alignright]China Business News reports an industry alliance to boost China-developed 3G telecommunication standard TD-SCDMA — Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access — is considering building a test network in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, to attract more phone makers to join the alliance.
This network, which has an estimated cost of over RMB5 million (US$641,026), will add the number of China’s regional TD-SCDMA networks to six, with the other five in Beijing, Shanghai, Baoding, Qingdao and Xiamen.
The timetable is not settled for the network.
Shenzen is home to nearly 140 phone companies and is the phone manufacturing base of China, accounting for more than 30% of the total.
It is now thought the telephone authority will formally announce the issuing of the long-awaited 3G license, most likely using the local TD-SCDMA standard, by March. This leaves little time to get it up and running in time for the Olympics.
Source: English East Day