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Sumner Lemon
IDG News Service\Taipei Bureau
Updated: Apr 21, 2005 03:27 PM

SHANGHAI - In a move expected to boost the prospects of China's homegrown 3G (third-generation) mobile standard, four cellular handsets based on the technology will be demonstrated in Beijing on Friday, according to the company that supplied chipsets for the phones.

Lenovo Group Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., DBTel Inc. and Ningbo Bird Co. Ltd. will demonstrate handsets based on TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) chipsets from Commit Inc., the Shanghai-based chipset vendor said. In addition, these companies and others will display 10 prototype handsets based on Commit's chipset, it said.

These are the first phones to be produced using Commit's two-chip TD-SCDMA chipset and the announcement marks an important milestone for the company, according to Andy Yang, the director of Commit's Marketing Department.

Commit was established in 2002 to develop TD-SCDMA chipsets. The company is backed by more than 15 investors, including LG, Texas Instruments Inc., Nokia Corp. and others. The company plans to introduce a single-chip TD-SCDMA chipset during the first half of next year, Yang said. A single-chip offering will require less space, allowing smaller handset designs, and consume less power.

TD-SCDMA was largely developed in China and is expected to be one of several 3G technologies rolled out in China when the country issues 3G licenses. China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), which oversees the country's telecommunication services industry, is expected to issue 3G licenses later this year.

However, the exact role that TD-SCDMA will play when China rolls out 3G services is unclear. "One of the key obstacles has been getting handsets ready that support the technology," said Ted Dean, managing director of BDA China Ltd., in Beijing.

So far, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is one of the few companies to have introduced TD-SCDMA handsets and these are being used in ongoing trials of TD-SCDMA networks, Dean said. "Any more handsets that come into the market, any more vendors that are supporting the technology on the handset side definitely helps," he said.


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China (mainland) – Some 20 handset terminal models complying with the nation's homegrown TD-SCDMA standard are set to debut on the 2005 TD-SCDMA International Summit in Beijing, from April 26 to April 27. The summit signifies a speeding up of the commercial applications of the standard. With the prodding of the TD-SCDMA forum, mobile handset local and overseas manufacturers and chipset suppliers will be able to break the bottleneck in the homegrown 3G standard. Domestic manufacturers include telecom giants such as ZTE Corp., Datang Mobile and Huawei Technologies, which recently received its mobile handset manufacturing license issued by the State Development Planning Commission (SDPC).

Huawei has reportedly invested more than $605 million in 3G R&D, covering the three mainstream standards: W-CDMA, CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA. In Q1 this year, Huawei acquired five international 3G system contracts. 3G licenses were also issued to five other local mobile handset manufacturers. This is foreseen to further boost the country's 3G mass production scale. The five newly licensed suppliers reportedly have a combined annual production capacity for 11 million mobile phone handsets.

According to the TD-SCDMA Forum, 3G terminal and system manufacturers that participated in the 3G testing recently conducted by the MII will know the results during the Summit.

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