Three ministries restate the support for TD
and called on enhancing commercial process
Sina.com
June 2nd ¨C At the "2008 TD-SCDMA Evolution
and LTE international Summit" organized by TD-SCDMA Forum,
government officials from the National Development and Reform Commission,
Ministry of Industry and Information, and Ministry of Science and
Technology, regarded the current overall progress of the TD-SCDMA
as being smooth. They reiterated that the government will continue
to support the development of TD-SCDMA, and called for strengthening
the process of commercial TD-SCDMA. This is the fist public comments
by the ministries since April 1st when the pre-commercial trial
of TD-SCDMA started. |
| China Telecom C network upgrade to 3G network
4G to LTE
Sina.com
June 2nd, Wang Xiaochu, Chairman
and the CEO of China Telecom, said at a press conference regarding
the acquisition of the CDMA business that the CDMA network evolution
in urban cities to will first be upgraded to EV-DO Rev.A, and
wait for the LTE development. This is the first time a China Telecom
senior executive declared in public the evolution direction of
the world¡¯s third largest CDMA operator: its CDMA network will
go to EV-DO before LTE. This announcement may indicate another
major restructuring of the global CDMA industry chain after the
Verizon, Sprint and Alltel's discontinuation to evolve their CDMA
networks to next generation.
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China Mobile recruits additional 60,000 customs
for TD-SCMA commercial test
The Beijing news
From June 5th to July 31st, China
Mobile will sign up additional 60,000 TD-SCDMA customers through
its official website (http://tdtest.chinamobile.com). China Mobile
will randomly select customers to participate in its pre-commercial
test. Compared to an earlier designated selection of test customers,
this round will have wider user participation. |
29 TD terminal permits access to network
Sina.com
During the 2008 Shanghai, TD-SCDMA
Evolution and LTE international Summit, TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance¡¯s
Secretary General Yang Hua said: up to May 30th 2008, 29 TD terminals
(including the TD-HSDPA data Card) from 19 companies have been
awarded acceptance permits by the Ministry of industry and informatization.
Six system vendors have acquired the whole series of TD-HSDPA
network equipment permits.
Those who acquired the terminal permits are CYIT¡¯s TD-HSDPA data
card TCN203, Datang¡¯s TG1000, data card DTM5722, Philips¡¯s TM700,
Holley Communications¡¯ 8310, Huawei¡¯s S220, S330, S660, data card
ET608, Haier¡¯s T300, Hisense¡¯s T68, T66, Long Qi¡¯s TD290, Lenovo¡¯s
TD800, LG¡¯s KD876, Motorola¡¯s L800t, Samsung¡¯s L288, I688, TCL¡¯s
U398, UT-Starcom¡¯s D60, Panda¡¯s TD988, Amoi¡¯s T5, NPTE¡¯s N268,
TD-HSDPA data Card H301, Yulong Kupai¡¯s 6260, ZTE¡¯s U85, U980,
U981, data card MU318.
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Abstract of the opening remarks
at the "TD-SCDMA Evolution and LTE Summit Shanghai 2008¡±
Zhu Gaofeng: In the field of TD-SCDMA,
the government, enterprises and the intermediary organizations have
worked together on the formulation of the standard, mastering core
of the technologies, development of the products, series of tests
and trials ,and the formation of services and value chain. However,
it is not the end of the road, we still have to continue.
Wu Hequan: China¡¯s
3G and TD-SCDMA are attracting worldwide attention. As the TD-SCDMA
industry chain becomes more mature and the pre-commercial trial
continues, we are seeing more and more manufacturers step in TD-SCDMA,
and the supply chain is improving. The TD-SCDMA advantages on
technology, marketing, and operations are being widely recognized
and accepted. International cooperations are increasing. Investment
of multinational corporations on TD-SCDMA is also gradually increasing
because the TD-SCDMA market prospective is better clarified.
Feng Jichun:
I hoped that we better understand market demand and users needs
for TD-SCDMA. We must further enhance the function and performance
of the TD-SCDMA network, firmly develop the evolution products
for TD-SCDMA. We must form a mutual support between the TD-SCDMA
market and the product supply chain.
Qi Chengyuan:
We must proactively summarize the problems on terminal quality
and service model that have emerged from the pre-commercial test.
We should take the the Beijing Olympic Games as an opportunity
to accelerate the commercialization of TD-SCDMA .
Zhang Xinsheng: We urge the
joint effort of the operators, equipment vendors, terminal manufacturers
and chip makers to form a complete industrial chain, and to promote
together the further development of 3G technologies including
TD-SCDMA. The cooperation will leverage the core competency of
China¡¯s telecom industry, so the TD-SCDMA can have a grand future
in China. |
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| News from Foreign Media |
Celcom signs 3G deal with Nokia Siemens
telecomasia.net
Nokia Siemens Networks won an order to
expand a 3G mobile telecom network of Celcom in Malaysia, a Reuters
report said.
The Malaysian carrier however did not give the value of the deal,
the report added.
Nokia Siemens Networks, a 50-50 joint venture of Nokia and Siemens
, said the deal includes upgrading radio and core networks of
the operator.
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Infineon Introduces World's Smallest 3G Handset
Platforms
cellular-news
Infineon Technologies has announced the availability
of its new generation 3G platform family, which reduces the number
of devices in the chipset from three to two and the component count
of a typical platform by 50 per cent. The solutions are based on
new members of the X-GOLD 61x-series and Infineon¡¯s 3G Radio Frequency
(RF) transceiver device, the SMARTi UE.
Verified samples and evaluation boards are available by end of June.
Volume production starts in the second half of 2009 |
Chinese telecom shares plunge on major shake-up
telecomasia.net
Chinese telecom stocks dropped more
than 12% after China Unicom unveiled $40 billion in deals, with
investors cashing out amid lingering uncertainty over Beijing's
industry revamp, a Reuters report said.
Unicom, smaller rival to China Mobile , said it was paying $24 billion
to take over fixed line peer China Netcom and selling its underperforming
network to China Telecom for over $15 billion, the report said.
The moves are aimed at speeding up the roll-out of high-speed, third-generation
mobile services for China's 1.3 billion people.
Shares in Unicom, domestic fixed-line leader China Telecom and smaller
player Netcom slid between 12.7 and 14.1%, shedding nearly $15 billion
of their value during the trading day, the Reuters report said.
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Verizon Wireless in talks to buy Alltel
telecomasia.net
(Associate Press via NewsEdge) Verizon Wireless is in talks to buy
Alltel Communications, the country¡¯s fifth-largest wireless carrier
by subscribers, for $27 billion, according to news reports.
If consummated, an acquisition would be the biggest telecom deal
since AT&T bought BellSouth at the end of 2006. Adding Alltel's
13.2 million subscribers to Verizon Wireless' 67.2 million would
create the largest wireless carrier in the country, far ahead of
AT&T with 71.4 million customers.
A deal could save Verizon Wireless more than $1 billion per year,
according to analyst Christopher King at Stifel Nicolaus. Verizon
Wireless now pays hundreds of millions in roaming charges every
year to Alltel, he estimated. |
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