The 8th China Wireless & Mobile Communication International Summit 2007 was held in Beijing on July 11-12, 2007.

Dr. Jing Wang, Senior Consultant of TD-SCDMA Forum attended the welcome and opening ceremony. As the VIP guest speakers in the plenary discussion panel - Capturing value in the network, Dr. Wang, Paul Wuh- Senior Vice President, Lehman Brothers’ Asian Telecom Equity Research, and Prof. Michael Walker,-Vodafone Group R&D Director, discussed with other delegates issues like cost-saving technology trends, network architecture, data enhancing technologies, and 3G trends and how will these transform the industry in the next 5-10 years.

When talked about the network convergence issues, Wang said “ mobile network operators will face more challenges in the next-generation network. The tendency of free basic voice and data services forced mobile carriers to put more resources on value-added services. They have to choose technologies with high spectrum efficiency and reasonable cost.”

One of the hot topics in this conference was coexistence and convergence of different technologies in the future hybrid telecom networks. Dr. Wang said, different feature technologies will target different applications, customers and market segmentations. Telecom carriers have begun to plan the architecture of future network, aiming to accommodate different technologies and different mode terminals. Technology convergence is a long-term objective and will take time. Convergence represents different things in different stages. Currently, convergence may represent common grounds in different core technology standards, which is also the basis for their future evolution and convergence.