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To: foundation who wrote (31463)	1/21/2003 8:44:07 AM
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Datang forms TD-SCDMA JV – but no sign of cash January 21, 2003 Reuters Datang Mobile, the state-backed vehicle for the development of China’s own 3G standard, has formed a joint venture with Philips and Samsung to design handset chips. But the new company, T3G Technology, will give no details of its financial commitment to the project. Datang has estimated in the past it would require up to $3 billion to turn the technology into a market-ready standard. Chief executive officer Johan Pross said T3G would produce chipsets and reference designs for the TD-SCDMA standard by the second quarter of 2004. "TD-SCDMA has technical advantages for users such as greater capacity and spectrum efficiency," Pross, a former Philips manager who has worked on the joint venture for about one year, told a news conference. "It also has very strong support from government." Officials declined to give a specific figure for investment in the joint venture, saying only it was in the tens of millions of dollars. They said Datang and Philips each owned about 40% of the new firm, while Samsung, the world's third largest handset maker, took a 20% stake. The joint venture will not make mobile phones, opting instead to licence its hardware and software designs to handset manufacturers such as partner Samsung, it said. The firm plans to focus on dual mode technologies allowing phones to run on both TD-SCDMA and W-CDMA networks, it said in a statement. The government has supported the homegrown mobile technology since its birth in the late 1990s and even engineered an industrial alliance of eight domestic firms last October to back the service. Analysts say they expect the government to award a TD-SCDMA license later this year or in 2004 along with a cdma2000 and W-CDMA licenses. Datang, which developed the Chinese standard, has another cellphone design partnership with telecoms services firm Commit Inc, itself a joint venture consisting of more than a dozen foreign and domestic firms. Thierry Laurent, a Philips executive vice president, said more partnerships would promote much needed competition in the sector and help speed up development of handsets. telecomasia.net ========== "The firm plans to focus on dual mode technologies allowing phones to run on both TD-SCDMA and W-CDMA networks, it said in a statement." This is only rational - and telegraphs TDD TDsCDMA's supplemental role within a macro-cell voice+data FDD network. Will TDsCDMA's fate be exclusively tied to wCDMA's uncertain future? Will the hooks and extensions be defined that are required for TDsCDMA - cdma2000 integration? They already have a 1.25mhz carrier in common....