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To: AllansAlias who wrote (93284)	4/12/2001 8:23:35 AM
From: stomper	Respond to of 436258

China defers 3G decision until 2002 A new system has been tested in Beijing, says report By Gareth Vaughan, FTMarketWatch Last Update: 4:27 AM ET Apr 12, 2001 BEIJING (FTMW) - The Chinese government is still mulling over which third generation (3G) mobile phone technology to adopt and will not decide before 2002, the China Daily said on Thursday. In December it was reported that the Chinese were making up their minds and were expected to announce their decision by March. But citing the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry, Thursday's report said that the country's domestically developed 3G technology was tested for the first time on Wednesday. The system, named Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access, was developed by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Technology and Germany's Siemens (DE:723610: news, alerts) (SI: news, msgs, alerts) . It adds an option to the (wideband code-division multiple access) WCDMA technology developed by European companies such as Ericsson (SE:000010865: news, alerts) (ERICY: news, msgs, alerts) and Nokia (SE:000053994: news, alerts) (NOK: news, msgs, alerts) and CDMA2000, developed by US players such as Qualcomm (QCOM: news, msgs, alerts) , the newspaper said. The report says that China's mobile phone operators such as China Mobile (CHL: news, msgs, alerts) , in which Vodafone (UK:VOD: news, alerts) (VOD: news, msgs, alerts) has a 2 percent stake, must now decide which 3G technology to adopt. China, with 85 million cellphone users at the end of 2000, is the world's second biggest mobile phone market behind the United States. Elsewhere in Asia, Singapore cancelled its 3G mobile phone auction on Wednesday after Hong Kong's Sunday Communications withdrew from the bidding leaving only three companies for four licences. Gareth Vaughan is a reporter for FTMarketWatch in London.