Asia Express - Mobile Communications
TD-SCDMA Update
October 26, 2007
- Chin Hsu, secretary of the high-tech industry department of the NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission), has confirmed at ICT China 2007 Mobile Terminal Summit that China will be adopting its homegrown TD-SCDMA to offer 3G services during 2008 Beijing Olympics, Xinhua News reported.

- China Mobile will issue a tender for TD-SCDMA mobile phones at the end of November 2007, which was originally scheduled for October. China Mobile will spend a total of 3 ?4 billion RMB (US$1 = 7.5RMB) to purchase two to three million TD-SCDMA mobile phones, Chinese-language Sohu News reported.

- Chinese Datang Mobile and Korean Samsung announced on October 23 that they have developed a TD-SCDMA mobile phone with support for HSDPA technology, enabling transmission rate at 2Mbps or above, Chinese-language First Financial Daily reported.

- As a follow up to an Asia Express dated on October 19 2007 reported that Chinese ZTE has developed a TD-SCDMA terminal leveraging the MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) standards, ZTE recently announced that it has successfully demonstrated TD-MBMS on Spreadtrum's TD-SCDMA/GSM/GPRS dual-mode chipset platform. The service is expected to be applied to mobile phones in the future.