China Mobile To Launch 3G Services This Year

China Mobile has announced it will roll out a TD-SCDMA service in eight Chinese cities before October this year, according to AFP. The telco will spend 15 billion yuan (US$1.9 billion) to build 8,602 TD-SCDMA base stations in the cities, which include Beijing and Shanghai and probably all the Olympic cities. The launch of 3G in China has been delayed several times, and the newspaper AFP is quoting “cited analysts as saying that China Mobile’s large-scale commercial deployment for this technology indicates that the government has “indirectly” issued the TD-SCDMA license”. It is also suggested that China Mobile will stick with the TD-SCDMA standard after this roll-out, despite earlier indications it preferred the W-CDMA stanard.
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