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China's Ministry of Information and Industry has urged China Mobile to accelerate its work on deployment of TD-SCDMA technology to ensure the 3G mobile service is ready for the Beijing Olympic Games this August, according to a Forbes report that cites China's official Xinhau news agency. The report says China Mobile has been asked to upgrade TD-SCDMA networks, improve TD-SCDMA terminals and expand promotional activity "with a sense of urgency and a sense of responsibility."

China Mobile has been testing TD-SCDMA technology - a homegrown mobile standard that may be used as a commercial 3G technology once national licenses are allocated - during trials in eight cities and will deploy TD-SCDMA networks during the Olympics. TD-SCDMA is a rival 3G technology to globally deployed commercial standards W-CDMA and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO. Yesterday, Alcatel-Lucent announced it had won a US$1 billion deal with China Mobile to supply the world's largest mobile operator (by subscribers) with equipment that includes TD-SCDMA technology. Meanwhile, a report this week in the South China Morning Post states that China Mobile is planning a tender for the second phase of its TD-SCDMA network - to be rolled out across the mainland - after the Olympics.

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Chinese electronics maker Amoi and TCL Group subsidiary TCL Communications have won TD-SCDMA manufacturing licenses in the Ministry of Industry and Information's (MII) third round of licensing, the TD-SCDMA alliance. This round, four handsets including the Amoi T5 and TCL U398 along with Huawei's S330 and ET608 models were approved. China currently has 13 licensed TD-SCDMA manufacturers working on 25 approved handsets.

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Shanghai has started trial operation of its 3G network, reports Shanghai Youth Daily. According to the report, ZTE TD-SCDMA handset general manager Luo Zhongsheng sent out the company's new year's SMS greeting over the TD-SCDMA network. TD-SCDMA network construction has been completed in nine cities: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, Qingdao, Xiamen, Shenyang, and Baoding.

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China will release more than 10 million TD-SCDMA user accounts in ten cities across China in the fourth quarter of 2007. The ten cities are Beijing, Shanghai ,Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Xiamen, Baoding, Qingdao and Qinhuangdao.

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China's Ministry of Information Industry approved the use of European and American standards for 3G mobile phones that are rivals to China's homegrown TD-SCDMA.

"The three world standards will all be used in China," said Yang Peifang, secretary general of the ministry's telecommunication economist panel.

China's homegrown TD-SCDMA has been called the "Chinese 3G standard", W-CDMA is European and CDMA2000 is American.

By adding the two foreign standards to the Chinese market, the government has consolidated its "technology neutral" stance and offered an open market for different technologies, said analysts.

"The introduction of the other two standards will help improve TD- SCDMA," said Yang.

China's 3G development depends primarily on strong demand for mobile data processing functions involving multimedia solutions and Internet connections.

China's major four operators, China Netcom, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, have started training 3G talents, constituting a war chest and making technological preparations for a smooth transition from the existing mobile telecom networks or PHS networks to 3G.

China's homegrown technology for 3G mobile communication passed a series of tests organized by the ministry last year.
"We will let operators choose which standard they want to use. But the government will decide how many 3G licenses are issued," said Xi Guohua, Vice Minister of Information Industry.

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