TD-SCDMA, China¡¯s homegrown 3G standard, will be heavily promoted as an international standard this year, the TD-SCDMA Forum said.
Wang Jing, secretary-general of the TD-SCDMA Forum also said "we will enhance our promotion activities this year to better expose the technology to the international market.¡±
"We believe it¡®s the right time to do the promotion as the technology is developing extremely fast and reaching maturity," he said.
Siemens, Qualcomm, Nortel, Motorola, Alcatel, Samsung, UTStarcom and LG have earlier expressed interest in the technology.
The standard has been increasingly watched since the government strongly hinted in January that it is likely to release 3G licenses this year.
According to the Ministry of Information Industry, final trials of the TD-SCDMA networks should be completed by the end of June.
However, TD-SCDMA is still lagging behind the other 3G standards such as the W-CDMA in Europe, and cdma2000 in the US.
Many analysts say they believe that the TD-SCDMA system must be successful in China before the standard goes global.
Source: c114.net |
