Ericsson has refused to scale back investments in China as it prepares for the launch of a lucrative 3G market.
Johan Bergendahl of Ericsson explained that the industry is shifting its focus from the West to Asian Pacific countries such as China and India. However, Bergendahl did admit that the impact of the worldwide economic recession [...]
There has been a lot of confusion around China Mobile’s (CHL) future prospects in the wireless market. China Mobile is currently building out a 3G network standard known as TD-SCDMA, created in China and rife with protectionist tones and technical snafus. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has mandated that China Mobile build [...]
China Unicom is scheduled to launch its first WCDMA trail network on December 31, 2008 and users in Wuxi now can apply to participate in the experiment by sending shortage messages.
Chinese regulators are likely to issue 3G licenses at 2008-end. China Unicom, which expects to obtain the WCDMA license, has kicked off works on WCDMA [...]
Chang Xiaobing, chairman and CEO of China Unicom, has stated that he expected the Chinese government to speed up the issuing of 3G licenses. Once a W-CDMA (UMTS), one of the international 3G standards, license is issued to China Unicom, they will start testing their 3G network in seven Chinese cities by the end of [...]
The Chinese government is currently studying the modalities of the 3G licensing policy along with ways to implement it and is likely to announce the policy soon, said China’s vice minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua.
Speaking at the China Mobility International Summit in Beijing today, Xi said the time is now ripe for [...]
Nokia has reaffirmed its commitment to TD-SCDMA at the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau. Colin Giles, president of Nokia China, said at the event: “Nokia firmly supports the development of TD-SCDMA.
“Our goal is to not only develop TD-SCDMA products that can deliver outstanding user experiences to consumers, but also to work with operators, chipset providers, [...]
