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November 20, 2005
3G in China Next Year!
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article China may be introducing third generation mobile phone services as early as next year.
The Chinese government has been delaying giving permission to a move to 3G primariy because of difficulty in determining how many carriers would eventually survive in the new space and allowing time for home grown network development by local manufacturers.
A handful of chip providers and phone makers announced second-generation chip sets and more-mature handset prototypes for the TD-SCDMA standard that China is developing as the basis for its 3G will be thrown into the mix with wideband-CDMA and cdma2000 1X when the government issues its 3G licenses.
That updated timeframe would allow China's mobile carriers to have 3G networks up and running by the time Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Mobile networks based on 3G offer users broadband multimedia services such as access to video and music in addition to providing location based services. This would allow mobile service providers expand revenue base while providing Internet access to wider group of Chinese citizens.
Posted by admin at November 20, 2005 12:58 AM