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On July 7th and 8th, 2006, a seminar on TD-SCDMA terminal and
chipset was hosted by the TD-SCDMA Forum in Hangzhou. Leaders
from Science and Technology Dept, MII, CATR, and telecom operators
like China Telecom, NTT DoCoMo as well as investment and consulting
organizations and research institutes attended this seminar.
More than 100 representatives from more than 50 chipset and
terminal makers as well as test instrument manufacturers also
attended this seminar. Organizations attended this event include
Datang Mobile, TD Tech, ADI, T3G, Commit, Maxim, TCL, ZTE, LG,
Bird, Agilent, Starpoint, Anritsu, MCCI and etc. Topics discussed
in this seminar covered different aspects of TD-SCDMA terminal
and chipset, eg. Test and authentication of TD-SCDMA terminals,
preparation for mass production of TD-SCDMA handsets, TD-SCDMA
differentiated services, test instrument R&D, development
and applications of TD-SCDMA HSDPA.
Mr. Yu Shengduo, Director of High Technology Development Division
of Science and Technology Dept., MII said in his opening remarks
that key technologies in TD-SCDMA like TD-SCDMA system equipment,
smart antenna, baton handover and cofrequency network deployment
have been fully verified in the field tests. Functions of TD-SCDMA
terminal and chipset as well as its compatibility and stability
have been greatly improved. Current, a variety of stable terminals
are ready for commercial use. All these shows that progress
has been made in TD-SCDMA industrialization and TD-SCDMA Forum
has played an important role in this process. He encouraged
more organizations to be involved in the Forum, the international
platform, to enhance their communication and cooperation.
In the salon held later that day, topics like status of TD-SCDMA
development, challenges of TD-SCDMA commercialization and strategies
in TD-SCDMA commercialization were discussed. Prof. Wang Wenbo,
Dean of the School of Telecommunication Engineering, BUPT, Mr.
Liu Jitang, Deputy General manager of Datang Mobile (Shanghai),
Dr. Qian Guoliang, Vice President of LG Electronics China R&D
Center, Mr. Wu Guohua, Senior Vice President of Holley Comm
were the guest speaker in the salon.
Mr. Liu Jitang, deputy general manager of the Datang Mobile
(Shanghai) said it is crucial to construct a platform to generate
TD-SCDMA service environment. It is unrealistic to assume any
TD-SCDMA service in advance. After the basic completion of this
platform, service providers will have more possibility to develop
their services and applications based on their own technology,
customer base and customer demands.
¡°It is meaningless to seek the killer applications,¡± said Jing
Wang, secretary general of TD-SCDMA forum. Developing 3G in
China to a large extend represents the technology innovation
in China. And actually it provides more space for operators
and service provides to develop new services and applications.
The development of 3G will generate great social and economic
benefits. He went on to explain.
Most of the attendees said TD-SCDMA should be put into commercial
operation as soon as possible. And the market operation is the
best way to verify and improve this technology. Any technology
can not be made fully mature without putting it into the marketplace,
said Zhao Yan, Vice President of Koretide, a Shanghai based
TD-SCDMA terminal software provider. He went on to explain only
when we put it into the market, can it be more quickly finetuned
and investment will also flow in.
Others argued that TD-SCDMA industrialization actually began
in year 2003. Its learning curve is relatively short compared
with other technologies. They suggest the government to stipulate
relevant regulations to protect this homegrown standard.
Dr. Jing Wang, secretary general of TD-SCDMA Forum said, if
considered seriously and strictly, the TD-SCDMA industry chain
is still not so complete. We still need input from the first
class multinational enterprises. And these enterprises and investment
organizations will only enter this market when this technology
shows clear prospects. Many of TD-SCDMA Forum organizations
are big name multinational companies in the world. And the Forum
has played an important role in the TD-SCDMA industrialization,
commercialization, internationalization and futurization. The
Forum has created different kind of communication opportunities
for its members as well as other organization in this industry
chain to exchange viewpoints and ideas and this is extremely
important at this stage. The involvement of overseas telecom
operator and other foreign organizations further enhanced the
tie between the TD-SCDMA enterprises in the Chinese domestic
market and overseas telecom market. We hope to see more suggestion
in this area to help develop TD-SCDMA.
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