BEAVERTON, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. has announced a new partnership agreement with Datang Mobile to provide test and measurement equipment for China's home-grown technology TD-SCDMA."By partnering with Datang Mobile, we are supporting their innovative developments that enable the TD-SCDMA initiative and strengthen the standard's presence in...
China's homegrown technology known as TD-SCDMA is creeping up from the industry's subconscious as it attracts more resources and quiet maneuvers from major players.The Chinese government recently allocated the 2.3 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands to Time Division Duplex, where TD-SCDMA is expected to...
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...
BEIJING, China-STMicroelectronics said it has agreed to license Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd.'s intellectual property rights of TD-SCDMA, China's 3G air-interface protocol.ST will develop system-on-chip products based on the technology."Devices will be developed initially for the Chinese market and potentially, in the future,...
BEIJING-China's home-bred technology, TD-SCDMA, will not be available until 2004 and continued testing will hold off licenses to fixed-line operators, according to Li Shihe, chief technology officer at Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd.The tests, which many vendors are performing, are expected to make...
BEIJING-Zhou Huan, chairman and president of the Datang Telecom Technology Group, told Hong Kong's South China Morning Post that China should back its home-grown third-generation (3G) standard, TD-SCDMA."As the United States government supports the CDMA standard and Europe supports GSM, our government should back...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-U.S.-based PHS vendor UTStarcom signed a strategic partnership with Chinese vendor Datang Mobile to jointly develop and promote the TD-SCDMA third-generation standard. The companies said they will provide a complete TD-SCDMA solution using UTStarcom's Internet Protocol-based core network and Datang's base stations and...
BEIJING-The 3G Planning Group of the State Information Office of the Chinese government has discussed a proposal to waive royalties on TD-SCDMA equipment to attract more manufacturers to produce equipment according to the standard and operators to use the technology.Since TD-SCDMA has mainly been...
BEIJING-Already the largest mobile-phone market in the world with more than 190 million subscribers at the end of September, China is gearing up to introduce third generation (3G) services on a trial basis sometime next year. But first, the government needs to make a...
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...
LONDON-Sasken Communication Technologies entered an agreement with Chinese company Datang Mobile Communications regarding a TD-SCDMA software module. The companies plan to jointly collaborate on TD-SCDMA protocol stack development for the technology, which is expected to be used for third-generation (3G) networks in China.
BEIJING—Datang Telecom launched China's first manufacturing company for third-generation (3G) mobile-phone equipment on 8 March.Datang invested 150 million yuan (US$18.14 million) in its new Beijing-based subsidiary Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company. Datang President Zhou Huan told the China Daily newspaper he expects the Chinese...
BEIJING—The TD-SCDMA technology jointly developed by China's Datang Telecom and Germany's Siemens has passed a trial test and is ready for commercial use within the year, according to Zhou Huan, chairman of Datang.However, neither China Mobile nor China Unicom have so far indicated that...
BEIJING—Siemens and the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) signed an agreement during German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's visit to Beijing this week. It is one of 29 agreements signed between Chinese and German companies.Siemens and CATT agree to continue their existing cooperation on TD-SCDMA...
CALGARY-Zi said it will provide expertise in text entry standards to China's Datang Telecom Technology, which is developing its own line of CDMA handsets. Datang Telecom signed a five-year licensing agreement for the use of eZiText technology in English and Chinese.
BEIJING—China's Datang Technology, China Electronics Corporation Wireless (CECW) and the Dutch firm Philips Semiconductors have agreed to form a joint venture to design and license core technology for TD-SCDMA mobile phones, including platform design, chipsets and software, China's Business Weekly reported in its 9...
BEIJING—Datang Telecom obtained the first CDMA handset manufacturing license issued in China. The company also produces network equipment.Together with Germany's Siemens, Datang has developed the TD-SCDMA 3G standard.
BEIJING—The English-language China Daily newspaper published a list of 19 licensed CDMA handset producers in its 31 August edition. The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) indicated it would not issue more licenses as the 19 manufacturers is already more than the market can absorb.Only...
In the United States, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed telephone companies to deliver video programming and cable companies to provide phone service. But even though the 1996 telecom act opened up competition, the United States' $100 billion telephone industry still had some big...
Three scientists accused of stealing Lucent Technologies Inc. software and sharing it with a Chinese company made plans to take their venture public and bragged it would become an Internet equipment giant in China, authorities say.The two Lucent employees and another man, all Chinese...
BEIJING-Although no official announcement has been made yet, an official at Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications, the subsidiary of China Unicom entrusted with building a CDMA network, said 10 vendors out of 12 have been selected to supply equipment for the network.The 10 successful bidders...
HONG KONG-"This time it's for real," stated Robert Mao, president of Nortel Networks China.But Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm, was rather more sanguine. "I've gone from being cautiously optimistic," said Jacobs, "to optimistic."The CDMA Development Group (CDG) fielded representatives from Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Nortel...
BEIJING-China's telecom circles are hotly debating whether the country's own standard for third-generation (3G) mobile communications-Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA)-will be the goose with the golden eggs, allowing it to claw back precious terrain from foreign equipment suppliers.Still, the Chinese are...
HONG KONG-U.S. mobile-phone vendors are gearing up for cdmaOne sales in China despite uncertainty whether the technology will be deployed there.While China Unicom told reporters here last week it still is interested in the technology, it remained unclear when and if the company would...
