China Telecom confident on 3G service
By Jonathan Yeung (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-05-24 09:03
China Telecom, the mainland's biggest fixed-line phone company, said it would
be able to offer third-generation (3G) services seven or eight months after it
gets a licence, based on trials of home-grown 3G standard TD-SCDMA.
China
Telecom has so far built 70 stations to undergo TD-SCDMA tests in Baoding of
North China's Hebei Province.
"The construction of the remaining 30
stations there will be finished at the end of this month," Chairman Wang Xiaochu
told reporters after the company's annual general meeting in Hong Kong
yesterday. "We will then start our TD-SCDMA trial-run at 100 stations and the
final test results should come out soon."
As for which standard the
mainland would adopt, Wang said: "Choosing TD-SCDMA or other 3G standards (in
China) should depend on which one of them is more acceptable to local
consumers."
TD-SCDMA is a home-grown 3G standard that Beijing said it
would adopt to build its national 3G network.
China Telecom's booth at China Elecomm 2006
which opened on May 23 at Shanghai Everbright Exhibition Centre.
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China Telecom and the mainland's two
major mobile phone operators China Mobile and China Unicom have been
authorized to conduct a TD-SCDMA trial-run on the mainland.
"There are
only two mobile operators on the mainland it's too few," said Wang, who
felt confident China Telecom will be in the first batch of 3G
licence-holders.
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