re: His Czarship spoke ...
c2,
<< To accentuate his point, utterred in Mandarin he said thet while many people had different opinions on this, the only one that counted was his. ... An incredibly arrogant and stupid thing to say because there is absolutely no way that China can support the standard on its own. >>
MII's Communications Minister Wu Jichuan has been called many things and arrogant is one of them. His Czarship, has however, never been called "stupid".
<< The trade war a dumb move like the one you suggest might happen would be incredible. >>
I didn't suggest a trade war.
You might want to refer back once again to John Shannon's posts:
Message 18171476
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IMO, those are two of the most sensible posts made here on this topic.
<< Who's going to do TD-SCDMA's infra, which is challenging? >>
If there is a market ... virtually all of the major infra providers that provide 3GPP 3GSM-MAP core networks and RANS ... Datang, Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel, Nortel, Nokia, Motorola, LGE, etc. All through established established Chinese companies, JV's, or consortiums.
<< Who's going to do handsets? >>
In addition to the China majors, Nokia, LGE, Samsung, Motorola, Siemens, etc.
Qualcomm (China), TI (China), Sasken, and others will supply chips.
I presume you are familiar with COMMIT which is a Shanghai based consortium and which is made up of 17 companies (9 Chinese, 8 foreign). The major COMMIT core group investors are:
• China Putian Information Industry Corporation
• China Academy of Telecommunications Science Technology
• Hyper Market International Ltd
• Texas Instruments (China)
• Nokia (China) Investment Co. Ltd
• LG Electronics.
With China focused on securing its own 3G TD-SCDMA technology, 17 companies including LGE, Nokia, and TI have been working together with CATT since June last year to establish COMMIT to secure proprietary intellectual property rights to TD-SCDMA technology and to develop related applications.
commsdesign.com
Meantime don't ignore this paragraph from the article you clipped:
Another strength of TD-SCDMA is its flexibility in the marketplace. It can be applied in three scenarios: either as standalone 3G, as evolution from GSM, or as a complement to W-CDMA.
This is key. 3GPP TD-SCDMA will use the evolved GSM-MAP R99 core network upgradeable to all IP (R5). The 3GPP TD-SCDMA UTRAN for a 3GSM core network is (will be) fully developed in 3GPP R4, and for the all-IP network in R5. Utra-DS (WCDMA) and TD-SCDMA can coexist in the same network as complementary access methods making use of two different frequency plans, one paired the other unpaired.
While cdma2000 and 3GSM WCDMA are further along in technological maturity than 3GPP TD-SCDMA, if the Chinese decide that it is in their best intersts to do TD-SCDMA in 3rd generation unpaired spectrum which has just been assigned they will have plenty of support and commercialization of TD-SCDMA will accelerate and the Chinese certainly don't lack patience.
<< C'mon, you know better than to spread that kind of BS around. >>
BS? Oh, yes. I forgot that your religion views anything Grahame Lynch writes as heresy. You might, however, want to read "The Bandwidth Bubble Bust". It is quite good. You can skip the chapter on Qualcomm. It would probably make you break out in hives. <g>
Best,
- Eric - |
