Mindless Zombie award for China and the TD-SCDMA crew. Message 18167362 <A government-backed industry alliance to support China's homegrown TD-SCDMA 3G cellular technology is to be set up this week.
Senior government officials and representatives of the country's main telecom- equipment manufacturers, financial institutions and its two mobile service providers - China Mobileand China United - are scheduled to meet Wednesday to establish the TD-SCDMA Industrial Alliance.
By gathering together such high-level representatives, the government is indicating it wants to spur broader efforts across the domestic industry to commercialize and support for development of the so-called Chinese 3G technology, TD-SCDMA.
China has not yet decided which technology to adopt for its 3G networks but it is likely to adopted at least two 3G standards out of three available.
TD-SCDMA is being developed jointly by Datang and Siemens, but the government is also being lobbied to consider WCDMA, the choice of European companies, and CDMA2000, a standard developed by Qualcomm....contd... >
Actually, they are probably mindless like a fox, because the real reason is probably to trade QUALCOMM shares like the good old days when CDMA was on/off/on/off/on/off/on and each time they could profit immensely by selling and shorting then buying and longing prior to the latest change of mind.
The share price swings were huge and profits must have been extreme.
So now they can play the same game with TD-SCDMA.
If that's not their game, then they deserve the Mindless Zombie Award.
That's because they only pay 2% royalty for sales inside China and even if they aren't liable for royalties on TD-SCDMA, which is very, very doubtful, to give it the best interpretation, the saving is trivial. Certainly not worth all the aggravation of trying to get a technology going which is no better than QUALCOMM's trusted and true huge subscriber base technology for which development is zooming ahead.
If they could get an export market going, they'd save 7% royalties [if they could get past the WTO and USS Enterprise without paying the royalty]. But nobody is interested in TD-SCDMA outside China, so nobody wants to buy it.
Maybe they are hoping to use it to negotiate better prices from QUALCOMM. They have already got better prices and should do like Korea and start making huge profits by going like mad on cdma2000. Wasting effort on TD-SCDMA is MZ stuff. Unless it's a great share-trading opportunity! A $billion here, a $billion there - pretty soon they'll be able to pay for a cdma2000 EV-DO or EV-DV network upgrade.
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