[photopress:Agilent.jpg,full,alignright]China is launching it its own home-grown 3G mobile phone service which is TD-SCDMA which means it does not have to pay royalties to, mainly, American companies.
Then it becomes important that Agilent Technologies, the world’s largest measurement equipment provider, appears to be an early winner with this standard.
The US company estimates that it now holds more than 60% of China’s TD-SCDMA network testing equipment market.
Key mover will be China Mobile, now the world’s largest mobile carrier, which will build a commercial TD-SCDMA network across the nation.
[photopress:it_td_scdma.jpg,full,alignleft]Once a new technology idea, like China’s TD-SCDMA, is proposed, industry players will need test equipment makers like Agilent to provide the tools to research the concepts.
When China decided to establish its own 3G mobile technology TD-SCDMA in 2000 Agilent was the first company to provide the necessary equipment for the homegrown-standard.
The TD-SCDMA standard is currently in use in eight cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Qingdao.
Source: China Daily