Telco set to grow 3G network
By Zhu Shenshen |
May 18, 2010, Tuesday
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CHINA Mobile will create the world's biggest 3G network when it more than doubles the building of 3G base stations to 200,000 this year from last year to cover all county-level cities, the telco said yesterday.
It will build the base stations to expand its TD-SCDMA coverage nationwide this year, compared with the 80,000 3G stations constructed in 2009, said Sha Yuejia, vice president of China Mobile, at an Expo forum.
By the end of March, there were more than 17 million 3G users in China and the home-developed TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) subscribers accounted for over one-third, or 7.69 million, of the total user base, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The TD-SCDMA technology has garnered wide support from the whole industry chain from carriers, chip designers to equipment makers, Lou Qinjian, the MIIT's vice minister, said during the TD International Development Summit held in the United Nations Pavilion yesterday.
Globally, the 3G user base accounted for about 15 percent of the total number of users, which means China has a greater potential to develop 3G and 4G technologies, said Zhao Houlin, deputy secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union.
By March, China had a total of 780 million mobile phone users but only 2 percent of them were 3G users.
In January 2009, China issued 3G licenses which allowed users to access high-speed data services such as video calling and film download onto their mobile phones. China Mobile adopted the TD-SCDMA technology.
Separately, the home-developed TD-LTE (time division-long term evolution) - a 4G technology evolved from TD-SCDMA - will be "at least 70 percent" regarded by the ITU as a global 4G standard at a conference in October, according to Zhao.
The TD-LTE technology, which is 10 to 20 times faster than 3G, is being tested at the Shanghai Expo site. Its development is backed by domestic and overseas firms.
It will build the base stations to expand its TD-SCDMA coverage nationwide this year, compared with the 80,000 3G stations constructed in 2009, said Sha Yuejia, vice president of China Mobile, at an Expo forum.
By the end of March, there were more than 17 million 3G users in China and the home-developed TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) subscribers accounted for over one-third, or 7.69 million, of the total user base, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The TD-SCDMA technology has garnered wide support from the whole industry chain from carriers, chip designers to equipment makers, Lou Qinjian, the MIIT's vice minister, said during the TD International Development Summit held in the United Nations Pavilion yesterday.
Globally, the 3G user base accounted for about 15 percent of the total number of users, which means China has a greater potential to develop 3G and 4G technologies, said Zhao Houlin, deputy secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union.
By March, China had a total of 780 million mobile phone users but only 2 percent of them were 3G users.
In January 2009, China issued 3G licenses which allowed users to access high-speed data services such as video calling and film download onto their mobile phones. China Mobile adopted the TD-SCDMA technology.
Separately, the home-developed TD-LTE (time division-long term evolution) - a 4G technology evolved from TD-SCDMA - will be "at least 70 percent" regarded by the ITU as a global 4G standard at a conference in October, according to Zhao.
The TD-LTE technology, which is 10 to 20 times faster than 3G, is being tested at the Shanghai Expo site. Its development is backed by domestic and overseas firms.
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