China Approves TD-SCDMA Standard

China has finally approved the TD-SCDMA standard, which hopefully indicates that the allocation of 3G licenses will happen very shortly.
“Developed by Datang Mobile and other Chinese equipment vendors, TD-SCDMA is expected to protect Chinese firms from royalty payments to the likes of Qualcomm Inc. and others. Qualcomm holds most of the essential patents to CDMA2000 1x EV-DO technology as well as patents covering W-CDMA. With more than 400 million wireless subscribers already, China’s market is expected to grow 65 percent by the end of 2010, according to Informa Telecoms & Media.”
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