Source: Xinhua
04-22-2009 10:11
Special Report: Tech MaxBEIJING, April 21 -- In the early January of this year, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the P.R.C. (MIIT) issued 3G licenses to the three reorganized whole business telecom operators, which marks the official initiation of China's 3G construction.
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| In the early January of this year, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the P.R.C. (MIIT) issued 3G licenses to the three reorganized whole business telecom operators. |
Under the impact of the international financial crisis, foreign operators began to shrink investment and compress programs, and China's communication industry is also influenced in certain extent. China's 3G license issuance has become a hot cake in the eyes of the global equipment and terminal manufacturers. "The government has chosen a fairly good time to issue 3G licenses." Yang Hua, Secretary-general of TD - SCDMA Industry Alliance told the correspondent that the 3G issuance makes the independent standards TD - SCDMA obtain a development opportunity with "right time, right place and right people".
"After ten-year test and argumentation on TD industrialization, the technology has been fairly consummate. What's more, the alliance enterprises are expecting TD commercialization." Yang Hua frankly expressed that the license issuance had reassured people and even inspired the motivity. It is revealed that in the recent two months, domestic enterprises has input several tens billion yuan encircling the TD network construction and terminal development
At present, China Mobile's TD phase III work of inviting public bidding for network equipment has been initiated in more than 200 cities. In accordance with the plan, China Mobile will invest over 100 billion yuan on setting up more than 100 thousand TD base stations and develop at least 30 million TD mobile phone subscribers in the future three years.
