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China Sees Its Phone Standard Accepted This Year, Paper Says
Shanghai, Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The International Telecom Union is expected to accept this year a cellular telephone standard that China is developing with Siemens AG, the China Daily reported.
Acceptance by the Geneva-based standards organization will give an edge to the Chinese-German technology, called TD-SCDMA, over the rival CDMA 2000 standard, the newspaper's Business Weekly reported, citing Li Feng, chief engineer of China's telecommunications academy.
CDMA 2000 is based on Qualcomm Inc.'s code-division multiple- access technology.
Billions of dollars are at stake in how China's government plans to build its cellular phone network. The government has begun developing the TD-SCDMA standard as it seeks to reduce its technology dependence on foreign firms such as Nokia Oyj, Ericsson AB and Motorola Inc.
(China Daily's Business Weekly, Sept. 3)
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Sep/03/2000 2:42 ET
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