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To: carranza2 who wrote (69960)	7/16/2008 5:05:42 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The China bosses must have given up on the ridiculous TD-SCDMA. Have a look at this from the TD-SCDMA crew. Message 24761187 I will be interested in what you think. I know English, and American, are not their first languages, but the English is technically pretty good. It's the meaning behind the words which is of interest. I have been scathing of TD-SCDMA for years; not the technology so much as the ideological, philosophical, economic and political gerry-mandering driving it. They have nicely encapsulated the situation, inadvertently, in that single rant about the glorious, revolutionary, TD-SCDMA. It propels their "over-taking strategy". In Antwerp, I bought a little yellow Lada "Banana Lada" nicknamed by Indian friends. Mostly it was for just tootling around Antwerpen, but I did do one trip to west of Paris to an environmental jamboree [in 1987 before most of the eco-fanatics had heard of CO2]. It got there and back without any servicing by mechanics [including me]. <the existence of TD-SCDMA will have immeasurable impacts on the successful realization of China's "Overtaking Strategy". > My Lada had special technological features, namely pistons which even included rings, complete with spark plugs, all with USSR specification [albeit largely copied from Fiat, but no royalties were payable, being "FIAT with Chinese characteristics". My overtaking strategy was to use those special USSR pistons, valves, spark plugs, gearbox and accelerator pedal. When I spotted an Audi, BMW or Mercedes, I would quickly move to my overtaking strategy, to show them who owned the road and who should be out of the way of whom. Somehow though, when I communicated my overtaking strategy via the accelerator pedal, the rpm didn't change much, or at all. Said BMW, Audi and Mercedes would disappear into the future with a speed difference of something like 70 kph. They were limited to about 150 kph in France whereas in Germany, they would have disappeared at Shinkansen speeds. Here are some of the design features of TD-SCDMA which are less than perfect, or in engineering speak, a shambles: Message 24760904 The Banana Lada ran better than TD-SCDMA. China should ditch their silly overtaking strategy and think in terms of co-operation strategy. China going Gung Ho on 450MHz and 800MHz CDMA/OFDMA with WiMAX/Wi-Fi would give Huawei and other China companies a huge home base to leverage marketing around. Nobody outside China wants the dopey TD-SCDMA overtaking strategy. Nobody inside China wants it either [unless they are getting the bribery payments and special favours to make it work]. My Banana Lada was similarly "accelerated": < Thus, the establishment and development of the independent innovation system for the information communication industry as a whole in China has been accelerated.> Nit-picking over Qualcomm's minuscule royalty is pathetic. "Cheapskate bludgers" is not too strong a phrase for the TD-SCDMA effort. Penny wise and pound foolish. China only needs to look at the over-taking strategies of Albania and North Korea to see where the TD-SCDMA strategy leads. Up a blind alley is where. Japan had their dopey PHS standard which was a success in Japan, but achieved little elsewhere, though China has picked it up [hardly an over-taking strategy]. Choosing GSM a decade ago instead of CDMA wasn't much of an overtaking strategy either. They have paid a fortune to the GSM Hagfish Guild and got themselves slimed into the bargain. China should look at Korea's success with CDMA and think to emulate that, on a grand scale, with full-fledged mobile cyberspace using multimode OFDMA/CDMA/WiMAX/Wi-Fi. They are away now with CDMA. They have failed to have even 3G available for the Olympic Games - not much of an over-taking strategy. Let's hope their Olympic athletes do better. Mqurice