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To: Ruffian who wrote (31752)	6/4/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: bananawind	Respond to of 152472

China Supports Third-Generation Mobile Telecom Standard June 4, 1999 (BEIJING) -- China supports the convergence of different standards for third-generation mobile telecommunications, an official said. The country also plans to commercialize the system between the year 2002 and 2003, according to Wen Ku, vice director of the science and technology department with the Ministry of Information Industry. "The Chinese government is actively participating in the standardization process of third-generation mobile telecommunication systems. We have offered our technology and proposals to that end," Wen said. The 17th Meeting of the 8/1 Task Group with the Radio Committee of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-R) was held recently. The 12-day routine meeting is to discuss and define detailed parameters to be used to set standards for third-generation mobile telecommunications, also called IMT-2000. The final proposal will be set and approved in October this year at the last meeting of the 8/1 Task Group. In an effort to standardize technologies related with third-generation mobile telecommunication systems, the ITU started evaluating various standards in 1985 and received 15 different proposals as of last June. Last June, China submitted a technology standard proposal (TD-SCDMA) to the ITU in an attempt to gain a position in future standardization procedures related to IMT-2000. However, the ITU failed to reach a uniform set of standards because of various interests represented by world telecom giants. The typical candidate standards are the Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) favored by European and Japanese companies, and the CDMA2000 supported by North American companies. (Xinhua News Agency)