BEIJING-According to Zhou Huan, president of Datang Telecom Technologies, co-developer with Siemens of the TD-SCDMA third-generation (3G) technology, the Chinese government has allocated broader spectrum resources for TD-SCDMA than for competing W-CDMA and cdma2000 technologies.
China will pay less licensing fees to overseas technology owners by using home-grown TD-SCDMA instead of one of the other two technologies.
On 30 October, Datang co-founded the TD-SCDMA Industry Association in Beijing, together with Soutec, Huali, Huawei, Legend, Zhongxing Telecom (ZTE), China Electronics and China Putian. Both mobile operators China Mobile and China Unicom attended the launch ceremony but did not commit to using TD-SCDMA.
When 3G licenses are allocated sometime next year, two additional companies are expected to receive licenses and may be interested in implementing TD-SCDMA.
