Three 3G licences?

5/16/2007, MII announced both CDMA2000 and WCDMA became the offical Chinese 3G standard. The local TD-SCDMA standard has been accepted since this January. Up to now, all 3 3G standards have been accepted by China. Does it mean that China will issue 3 3G licenses?

If there is 3 3G licences, will there be a M&A among Chinese state-hold carriers. Recently there was rumors that Unicom had stopped the investment in CDMA network. Many people guessed Unicom would sell their CDMA network to China Unicom. Unicom has once again denied such news.