MIIT supervises Round 2 TD Network Building
of China Mobile
Sina.com
June 25th, Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology (MIIT) called TD-SCDMA major manufacturers to participate
in meetings to get updates on TD-SCDMA. It is said that China Mobile
has started to plan for the round 2 TD-SCDMA network, which may
mean to construct the TD network in mostly cities in China. MIIT
pays high attention on appropriate planning of next step for TD-SCDMA.
For the current network in eight cities, China Mobile will add more
base stations to improve the coverage. The actual number could be
significantly more than originally planned 300 additional base stations. |
| TD user¡¯s investigation by Statistics Bureau
The National Statistics Bureau organized a survey in Shanghai,
Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang, Qinhuangdao, Guangzhou,
Shenzhen, and Xiamen for the user feedback on TD-SCDMA. The survey
was conducted for the purpose of helping promote TD-SCDMA technology
and market in order to ensure quality service for Beijing Olympic
Games
The survey includes the technical evaluation in the user experience
of TD-SCDMA terminals testing and data card.
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China Mobile: Second phase of TD terminals increases
to 200,000
After the first batch of
20,000 TD friendly users, China Mobile will recruit 60,000 testing
users in the eight cites from June 5th ¨C 31st July. China Mobile
had purchased 60,000 TD mobiles and data cards in April. According
to equipment manufacturers, China Mobile will invite the second
phase public bidding of TD terminals, and the numbers of the second
bidding will be increase from 100,000 sets to 200,000 sets.
Qualified terminals must fulfill mandatory 3G services such as video
telephony and video sharing; China Mobile will also demand that
terminals support services like mobile TV, VOD, and broadband wireless
internet access.. |
China Mobile recruit 1,000 mobile Internet
dealers
June 24th, China Mobile announced to launch the special electronic
terminal sales platform and recruit 1000 sales channels to speed
up the 3G terminal distributions. Channels can book and distribute
the TD terminals online.
The channel recruitment will be launched by the end of June by
the China Mobile headquarter. The provincial and municipal branches
are not directly involved in this sale. The distributors could
contact with the TD department of China Mobile. Once approved,,
channels will be allocated accounts to log on to TD terminal electronic
mall of China Mobile:www.aoxiang918.com
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2008 Spreadtrum Forum held on June 17th to June 18th
in Shanghai. "Cooperate to create value" is the theme
of the forum. CEOs from major domestic terminal manufacturers such
as Amoi, Lenovo, Bird, etc attended the forum to offer their views
on how to boost up the competency of domestic terminal vendors in
the upcoming 3G / TD-SCDMA deployment.
Medias interviewed Zhou Huan, Chairman of TD-SCDMA
Forum during Spreadtrum Forum
Summary of the interview
Zhou Huan, Chairman of TD-SCDMA Forum: One step away from
success
I believe that under the leadership of government, TD-SCDMA will
embrace its success as China Mobile is designated to run this technology
in China¡¯s 3G market. We should further strengthen high-level organizational
leadership and measures, and offer favorable policies TD-SCDMA so
that the TD environment will be further improved. We just need to
keep the momentum! |
Zhou Huan£º
3G's future success does not depend on 3G technology itself, but
on the service innovations and our ability to offer the various
services attractive to the common people.
10 years ago, TD-SCDMA only had one enterprise to support. Now
it is the effort and desire of whole country. The development
of TD-SCDMA is now entering a new stage.
Wang Jing, Secretary General of TD-SCDMA Forum:
Chip and mobile phone enterprises need to accelerate the speed
of product development. Network operators need to expand the network
layout, and truly promote the rapid development of TD -SCDMA.
We urge multinational tier one chipset and terminal vendors to
strengthen the TD-SCDMA supply chain.
Wu Ping, CEO of Spreadtrum:
TD is a good 3 G network. The key is how you utilize it. We Chinese
people can do a lot of cool things via this network. Chinese people
love entertainment, whether it is movies, novels, television or
chat, and more other things, TD network in China can do so much
more than the rest of the world's 3G network. |
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| News from Foreign Media |
Alcatel-Lucent Wins Military WiMAX Contract
cellular-news
LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the U.S.
government community, announced today that the Defense Information
System Agency (DISA) has chosen Alcatel-Lucent¡¯s WiMAX wireless
broadband technology after a rigorous technical and interoperability
analysis under its Tactical Service Providers (TSP) Joint Capabilities
Technology Demonstration (JCTD)¡£
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Nokia to acquire Symbian in $411M deal
Rcrnews
Nokia Corp. will acquire total ownership of Symbian Ltd., buying
out current partners in a deal valued at about $411 million, the
company said today.
Nokia said it would combine its own S60 platform with the Symbian
platform and provide the results ¡ª a single smartphone operating
system ¡ª without charge to the former owners and other parties joining
a new Symbian Foundation, also announced today. According to Nokia,
the Symbian OS currently runs on two-thirds of all smartphones worldwide. |
Handsets Asia 2008
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2008 in Kempinski Hotel Shenzhen, the conference will update you
the who¡¯s who and current status of leading and second tier handset
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to our customer service. |
Vodafone to Challenge Indian Tax Law Change
cellular-news
Vodafone is expected to seek to challenge a change to India's tax
laws which have been applied retrospectively to its US$11.1 billion
purchase of a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar. Vodafone said
in a statement last Friday that it has submitted an amended writ
petition challenging the "constitutionality of the retrospective
amendment of the changed tax law". |
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