EU Urges China to Follow 3G Development

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EU Urges China to Follow 3G Development

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A leading EU official has urged Chinese Telecoms Regulators to follow the same next generation mobile phone standards as Europe. EU Commissioner Erkki Liikanen says he hoped China will follow a path that guarantees smooth transitions between European and Chinese networks.

China is currently deciding which 3G systems it should use, although few expect much progress on actual network building before the middle of next year.

During the 1980s and 1990s China was happy to follow Europe's lead and use GSM infrastructure.

The administrators in Beijing must now make decisions which will have great bearing on how the major mobile equipment vendors fare in the future in what is the world's largest market.

The Chinese are currently weighing up various options including the country's home grown TD-SCDMA, Qualcomm's CDMA and the Japanese and European-backed WCDMA standard.

Ericsson and Nokia would benefit most if China plump for WCDMA. Siemens, which would also support a move to WCDMA, has hedged its bets by investing in the TD-SCDMA standard and would earn royalties from it. However, the field would not be entirely free for European companies as local manufacturers are keen to get in on the act too.

What is 3rd Generation

The Third Generation is a technology shift taking mobile telephony to a higher level. The term describes a new generation of wireless systems that enable services and functions far removed from the era when mobile phones were used for voice calls only.

The results may be impressive but the transformation itself won't be all that revolutionary. When taking GSM customers into the world of 3G, operators won't have to switch their networks from one system to another. The move from 2G to 3G is not a revolution; it is an evolution which optimizes existing infrastructure, enabling it to co-exist with the new WCDMA system.

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