November 4, 2003
Chinese phones to shun international standards
Handsets that run on China's own home-grown high-speed cellular data network will become available in 2005, according to Silicon.com
"The 3G mobile phone is the first to use China's TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous CDMA) standard. It was developed using local patents, marking another step towards China's goal of commercially using the China-developed data standard.
China's domestically developed TD-SCDMA standard was recently approved by the International Telecommunications Union of the United Nations, and is competing with the European standard WCDMA (wideband code division access) and the American CDMA2000 (code division multiple access) standard.
With over 221 million mobile users and growing at 4 million new subscribers a month, China is the world's largest single cellular market. The push to domestic standards such as TD-SCDMA aims to cut licensing fees for foreign-developed standards, and hopes eventually make China-developed technology popular internationally".
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