TD-SCDMA gets approval by the Chinese government

date: June 25, 2002

Siemens AG and Chinese partner Datang have won approval from the Chinese government to build a 3G mobile telecoms network based on their TD-SCDMA standard, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Financial Times said the Chinese government had approved the standard, declared as one of the official 3G standards by the ITU alongside the CDMA 2000 standard in the United States and UMTS in Europe.

"We have so far seen no official statement from the Chinese government," Siemens spokesman Peter Gottal said.

China's early choice of TD-SCDMA gives the local third generation or 3G technology a boost over other standards, as the construction of UMTS or CDMA 2000 networks has yet to be approved by the Chinese, the paper said.

Still, analysts see TD-SCDMA more as a complementary rather than a stand-alone technology due to the slower speeds at which it transfers data, it said.

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