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To: Qgent who wrote (62322)	4/10/2007 1:53:18 PM
From: Q8tfreebe	Respond to of 196959

Lets hope the French and Chinese honor their license obligations. We know the freakin Finns don't !!!

To: Qgent who wrote (62322)	4/10/2007 2:37:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196959

Better news for China and QUALCOMM would have been that they are rolling out 450MHz CDMA2000 EV-DORB with wifi and OFDM on board Anita [TM] handsets. Their stupid xenophobic totalitarian thieving ideology means they are up a gum tree with their dopey TD-SCDMA which nobody else around the world will buy. The royalty on CDMA2000 for use in China is already near-zero. They are planning on chiseling the last 2% from QUALCOMM and using ineffectual technology to do it. Their costs will be HIGHER than CDMA2000 because even with 1 billion people, that's just a small proportion of 6 billion total humans, many of whom are using CDMA2000. We have heard a lot about economies of scale in the cellphone world and the costs which fall on those with low market share. CDMA2000 has lower royalties than the 12% charged by the greedy GSM Guild for W-CDMA. And it's more advanced. So China should ditch TD-SCDMA, or maintain it as a hobby, just for fun, and go Gung Ho with CDMA2000 and make the world's biggest fortune ever in human history. Instead, China is relegating itself to a footnote in history. Unsurprisingly. Mqurice

To: Qgent who wrote (62322)	4/11/2007 6:54:09 AM
From: rkral	Respond to of 196959

ZTE, Datang to set up 3G bases in China 11 Apr 2007 tinyurl.com About 1,400 3G base stations are expected to be built in Shanghai and Beijing by the end of the year following ZTE Corp. and Datang Mobile's win from China Mobile Communication Corp.'s 3G bidding,according to a ShanghaiDaily report. The companies will build 400 to 500 outdoor base stations and 800 to 900 indoor stations to cover each city, each costing around $6,493 on average, according to Chen Haofei, secretary general of TD-SCDMA Forum. "The TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) networks will cover the whole cities for the coming Olympic Games, therefore China Mobile focuses more on the full coverage rather than short-term profitability," Chen said at the TD-SCDMA Forum. ZTE won contracts worth $414 million in China Mobile's equipment bid, based on the homegrown TD-SCDMA technology, along with partner Ericsson's $ 33.6 million. ZTE will provide 3G equipment in six cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen and Guangdong Province, the report said. Datang and Alcatel Shanghai Bell (ASB) won $311.8 million, according to Chen. As a joint bidder with Datang, ASB took a significant share of the TD-SCDMA networks in Shanghai and Guangzhou. The projects will be completed this October, according to ASB spokesperson Cao Yong. Other bidders who won contracts from China Mobile include TD-Tech, a joint venture between Nokia Siemens Network and Huawei Technologies, and China Putian.