China Urges Telecom Equipment Makers to Adopt TD-SCDMA Standard

6:50 am on May 22, 2007 | Category: Business, Cellular, Regulation, Wireless Technology

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Big-name telecom equipment vendors like Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens would be wise start taking China’s homegrown 3G wireless standard more seriously, according a senior government official in the communist country.

“I believe many foreign companies have misjudged (the prospects of) TD-SCDMA,” commented Secretary General, Chen Haofei, of the TD-SCDMA Forum. “Foreign companies need to get serious about TD-SCDMA as they are less likely to get anywhere with WCDMA and CDMA2000 in the near future.”

China’s communist government, which has yet to grant 3G spectrum licenses to wireless carriers, has been trying to strong-arm service providers into using its homegrown standard for the past several months, and is now doing its best to blackmail foreign equipment makers into cooperating.

TD-SCDMA has virtually no standing outside of China, and is not compatible with mobile technologies used in other parts of the world. If Chinese regulators succeed in establishing this homegrown standard as the country’s dominant wireless technology, the big telecom equipment vendors will indeed face an uphill battle in serving the Asian country. As a result, China’s cell phone market will continue to lag behind other countries in terms of technological sophistication.

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