10/21/2007, WiMAX has become offical ITU 3G standard. As an TDD technology, It will compete with another TDD 3G standard, TD-SCDMA from China, directly. Now you can see many feedbacks from Chinese media on this news:
1) It is a big slap to Chinese goverment who supports TD standard so many years.
2) TD will have not opportunity to go abroad from today.
3) Those state-hold TD equipments developers are too bureaucratic, that is the reason why TD is still not mature enough
4) The future Chinese 3G licences will be affected deeply by this
5) Chinese should not learn Japan, on standard problem, we should not close the door. ( Japanese have many standards that are only used in Japan )
6) Forget TD, it is only a scam that helps somebody to gain more benefits in China. Because of TD, Datang telecom got hugh investments from government, Because of this concept, many public companies attracted a lot of money from stock market. But, is it a real good concept?
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Hi. I agree with you on the first 4 points but don't quite understand the last two.
What do you mean by
"4. Chinese should not learn Japan..."
and
"6. Forget TD, it is only a scam..."
Japan had alot of indiginous standards (PHS, and some security algos) that kept it out of the mainstream. Hurt them in getting up to speed with rest of the world.
TD-SCDMA is believed by many as a way to line the chinese vendors pockets by making a different technology. Many believe china would be further along with wireless if it just did mainstream GSM/GPRS OR WCDMA but then the local co's would not participate.
Keep the info coming, this is a great blog with lots of info from China which is hard for us here in the US to track!!!!!!!!!!
I was at the Post and Telecom (PT Expo) in Beijing last week. This is the biggest telecom expo in China that's held every two years. Of course the TD gang was out in full force to show TD in its full 0.384Mbps glory and all the local handsets.
However, Ericsson was there too, but rather quietly showed off HSPA and LTE at a tente outside the main halls - which demonstrated living 28Mbps. Ericsson didn't show the demo to the public - not sure if they were not allowed to or they just wanted to provide a VIP reception to potential customers.
If Ericsson really tried to make their demo more public, I don't think people would even visit the TD booths!
In the meantime, while the rest of the world are starting to see HSDPA as mainstream, and mobile Internet is starting to become common - poor Chinese users are continually left with measly 2G GPRS. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
So who's interest does the idiots who are pushing for TD has? I guess certainly not the Chinese consumer.
"(So who's interest does the idiots who are pushing for TD has? I guess certainly not the Chinese consumer.)"
From what we hear is has been the MII trying to demonstrate "nationalist" pride in developing a technology "different" (TD) from the rest of the world (GSM). Also TD does not incorporate the security that others do (look also at EPON vs GPON and why China chose EPON which does not use as stringent AES encription like GPON...). They have dragged their feet in 3G licenenses trying to help TD catchup to main stream. Since when has the govt cared about the consumer when considering nationalist and security and bragging rights?
"Since when has the govt cared about the consumer when considering nationalist and security and bragging rights?"
The last time this mentality prevailed, China ended up with its worst famine. It is so surprising that the epitome of technology - Telecom - is run by people with this very feudalistic mentality. Its just as well that TD turned out to be a failure (though credit for them to try), and maybe they just might think twice about prioritizing nationalism over economic principles again.
As for the earlier comment about the Japanese. There is a big difference. The Japanese PHS and other systems were NOT developed so as 'not to depend on foreign technology', but it was developed because the rest of the world was lagging behind or that the standards bodies were just dragging their feet that the Japanese got fed up and just went on their own! DoCoMo was one of the first, as well as Hi-Vision (since the late 80's). The same cannot be said for TD. At best, it is just a learning project to 'catch up'.
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