BEIJING-Tang Ru’an, chief executive officer (CEO) of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company, told the China Daily newspaper that this year will be of crucial importance for commercializing TD-SCDMA, the third-generation (3G) standard the company co-developed with Germany’s Siemens.
Trial operation of experimental networks in Chongqing and Chengdu in southwest China will begin during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday, which starts 1 February.
Tang revealed that a joint venture between Datang, Philips and Samsung to be inaugurated 20 January in Beijing plans to launch a TD-SCDMA handset at the end of the year.
Neither of China’s two mobile carriers has so far made a commitment to adopt TD-SCDMA, but analysts expect that if new mobile licenses are issued, the new carriers would choose the technology.
