China to Launch 3G Mobile Network in 2003

date: 15th December 2000, source: China Daily

China is expected to construct the third generation (3G) mobile telecommunications commercial networks around 2003, officials from the Ministry of Information Industry disclosed.

Economic Information Daily quoted the officials as saying that China will develop its own 3G mobile telecom equipment for the nation's mobile telecom network.

China has made great achievements in the 3G mobile telecommunications, and its 3G mobile telecom standard TD-SCDMA has been recognized by the International Telecommunications Union, according to a meeting of the 8/1 Task Group held in Beijing on Tuesday.

If everything goes smoothly, China's TD-SCDMA will have the ability to compete with European W-CDMA and American CDMA2000 standards.

Initiated by telecom operators including Datang Telecom Technology Group, China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, Siemens, Motorola and Nortel Networks, the TD-SCDMA Technology Forum was officially launched in Beijing recently.

According to the organization, mobile telecom operators, manufacturers and research institutes will join their efforts to promote China's industrialization of 3G mobile telecom technologies.

According to industry insiders, a unified standard system will not come out until the mid-term of next year. All telecom operators are beefing up their efforts to get prepared to be up to the new standard.

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