If you can call a proprietary 3G protocol that lags its CDMA and WCDMA competition by years a "technical achievement, " anyway.

ENGADGET: China Mobile delivers production 3G network in time for Olympics

In the widely used cellular protocol known as code division multiple access, or CDMA, data are chopped up into dozens of small, duplicate data packets and blasted out over a range of frequencies.

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