[photopress:wang_xudong.jpg,full,alignright]It seems likely that 3G will happen in China although, at one time, it seemed that it would be skipped and a direct move made to home-grown 4G.
The Ministry of Information Industry has issued a statement that could be taken as a postive sign.
Lou Qinjian, vice-minister of China’s telecommunications watchdog, said, ‘We will take advantage of the development of third generation mobile telecommunications to improve the structure of telecommunications industry.’ He made the statement in Beijing at 2007 Telecommunications Industry Development and Policy Briefing.
Analysts see in this statement another message from the regulator that China was set to roll out its 3G development policy in the very near future. These remarks echoed Minister Wang Xudong’s statement (the minister is in our illustraion) in December at the ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong that ‘3G could happen very soon’.
However, important this, China’s 3G will probably run with the Chinese developed form of TD-SCDMA (that acronym rolls off the tongue of everyone in the business and confuses every one else. Perhaps that is the intent. It stands for time division synchronous code division multiple access.)
This is one of the three ITU recognized 3G technologies. The other two are European-based WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) and US Qualcomm-based CDMA 2000. Being recognised by the ITU. ITU is the world telecommunications body that used to be called the ICTT but they changed it to confuse us all. It is the standard world authority on communications.
China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile operator, is considering a bidding plan for contractors and suppliers for its 3G networks, worth RMB10 billion (US$1.3 billion) so matters are hotting up.
Source: China Daily