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January 04, 2006
Cheap 3G phones on the way for developing countries?
China this week announced its own homegrown 3G mobile phone chip based on WCDMA. The chip transmits data up to three times faster than the rival CDMA2000 technology according to a report by Xinhua, the Chinese new agency. It said the chip's designers have obtained 16 domestic and international patents for the device.
The new chip is named Noah3000 and is produced jointly by Southeast University and Dongda Communication Co.
China has in the past tried to create its own 3G service based on TD-SCDMA to compete with existing WCDMA and CDMA2000 standards to avoid licensing fees altogether for its 388 million mobile user market. However the TD-SCDMA has failed to yield data rates required to compete with other 3G standards.
The new chip supports one of the global 3G standards and if succesul would raise competition in the global market to reduce mobile phone prices based on next generation broadband standards potentially helping adoption in developing countries.
Posted by admin at January 4, 2006 12:54 PM