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To: JohnG who wrote (131716)	11/4/2003 6:14:41 PM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 152472

TD-SCDMA phone with TI and others' chipsets. Lotsa licenses in play, with a predictable track record and outcome. ============================================= Chinese university develops first TD-SCDMA handset 2003-11-4 15:27:25 Reuters China's efforts to develop its homegrown TD-SCDMA technology have taken a step forward with the first compatible phone. A Chinese university said on Monday it had developed a telephone for TD-SCDMA, a milestone that could help decide when 3G licenses are introduced in the country. How and when the Chinese government issues 3G licenses will help determine which equipment makers grab billions of dollars in contracts likely to be awarded by mobile carriers. The new phone was developed by the Chongqing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications in southwestern China. "The 3G mobile phone is not only the first in China, but also the first TD-SCDMA phone in the world," Zhen Jianhong, a professor at the university, told Reuters. "We plan to produce this kind of mobile phone in small scale next year and in large scale in 2005." "Chinese consumers could buy this kind of mobile in the second half of 2005 as the network for 3G would have been set up by then," he said. Analysts have said Chinese regulators were likely to delay introducing 3G licenses until the relatively new TD-SCDMA technology matured and vendors offered viable mobile phones. China has over 250 million mobile subscribers. "The market is generally skeptical about TD-SCDMA, so having concrete equipment and handsets obviously strengthens its hand," said Glyn Truscott, a consultant at Beijing-based telecoms consultancy BDA China. Chinese equipment makers said the government had pledged between 600 million ($72.5 million) to 700 million yuan to support TD-SCDMA research this year. Zhen said his phone was tested on a trial network set up by the Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Group and Siemens, which are both trying to develop their own versions of TD-SCDMA phones. The phone uses chips from several makers, including Texas Instruments, he said. The researchers had set up a company, Chongqing Chongyou Information Technology, to develop and market the phone. It runs on TSM (TD-SCDMA System for Mobile Communication), a variation of TD-SCDMA that uses the same base network as GSM. Another version of TD-SCDMA, called TDD-LCR, is designed to be integrated with W-CDMA deployments. Some equipment makers, such as Siemens, think TSM is more marketable because it is a hybrid of two systems, one of which is the most widely deployed cellular systems in the world. Others, such as Datang, work on TDD-LCR. Denmark's RTX Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Philips Electronics and Chinese equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, in partnership with Siemens, are all developing TD-SCDMA phones. tdscdma-forum.org