Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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China to award 3G licences this year
July 21, 2003 - source: BWCS
The Chinese government is to issue licences for 3G services before the
end of the year, according to a report in the China Business Post. However,
this will be too soon for China’s homegrown standard TD-SCDMA to be adopted,
which is not expected to be ready for deployment for another 4 or 5 years,
a telecom analyst at China Minzu Securities said.
The TD-SCDMA standard is being developed by China’s Datang Mobile Communications
Equipment Co and Siemens AG to compete with WCDMA and CDMA2000. If 3G
licences are issued this year, Datang’s COO expects TD-SCDMA to take a
25 percent share of the Chinese telecoms market by 2006, which would bring
the company’s total R&D investment in the standard to Yuan1.1 billion.
According to the report, TD-SCDMA terminal equipment will not be developed
until the middle of next year and a test platform for commercial trials
has yet to be established. Although mobile operators have not yet said
which 3G standard they will adopt, China Mobile is expected to choose
WCDMA to upgrade its GSM networks, while rival China Unicom, whose networks
are based on CDMA1X, is likely to opt for CDMA2000.
With over 200 million subscribers, China is the world’s largest mobile
market. Analysts Merrill Lynch expect the subscriber base to grow to 350
million, more than a third of the population, within five years.
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