Observers believe the Chinese are hard at work developing a homegrown advanced standard, known as TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous cdma), and that 3G licenses will appear once TD-SCDMA is ready.
This and other dual-core and quad-core smartphone products supporting TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and LTE will expand our addressable market, improve our product mix and position us for strong growth this year.
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The carrier is therefore investing in building out a next-generation 4G TD-LTE network that would help it move on from its home-grown TD-SCDMA network and increase its chances at landing lucrative smartphone contracts.
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As for TD-LTE, China Mobile expects its 4G technology to bloom in China some time between 2014 and 2015, as it continues to help the development of devices that natively support five modes (GSM, TD-SCDMA, UMTS, FD-LTE and TD-LTE) along with 10 to 12 bands.
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This network standard, called TD-SCDMA is incompatible with the 3G networks of most other carriers.
TD-SCDMA, an immature standard for which there is only a limited selection of handsets and equipment.
China Mobile, like all Chinese carriers, uses a unique technology standard (TD-SCDMA) for its 3G cellular network.
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In 2012, over 60 million TD-SCDMA devices were sold, with December alone pumping out over seven million units.
TD-SCDMA technology, says he believes that China will try to push the technology both at home and in neighbouring countries.
However, these local standards such as TD-SCDMA and CMMB have yet to become globally relevant and there is little export market.
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So this nationalist outlook led to MII adopting a Chinese 3G standard TD-SCDMA which became a long saga for network deployment.
TD-SCDMA would reduce its dependence on foreign vendors and technology, and level the playing field for domestic suppliers of network infrastructure and handsets.
They asserts that the wireless communications segment is weaker than projected, due to disappointing TD-SCDMA handset releases in China, while PC builds are tracking slightly behind plan.
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The three flavors are known as 802w, 802t and 802d, each heading to China Unicom (WCDMA), China Mobile (TD-SCDMA) and China Telecom (CDMA), respectively.
TD-SCDMA will take off only if the government issues additional licences to let other firms enter the market, one of which then opts to adopt the unproven technology.
Under the hood, the existing pentaband 3G radio gives way to China's proprietary TD-SCDMA standard, and the ARM 11 processor gets a 20MHz speed bump to 700MHz.
China Telecom has also been helped by the fact that China Mobile currently runs its 3G network on a homegrown proprietary TD-SCDMA standard that is not compatible with many smartphones.
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Moreover, the fact that China Mobile runs its 3G network on a proprietary homegrown TD-SCDMA standard has proved to be a big deterrent for the carrier in securing smartphones compatible with its network.
The firm commands a 30 percent market share in China's nascent TD-SCDMA market, and hey, you can only be a massively successful manufacturer in your domestic market before trying your hand elsewhere, right?
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TD-SCDMA claim that their technology was developed independently.
TD-SCDMA standard and allow in one foreign operator.
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The first is that China Mobile does indeed use a different 3G standard (TD-SCDMA, something which no one else uses) which means that Apple would have to produce a new model specifically for that network.
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That said, Wang also announced that China Mobile aims to sell twice as many TD-SCDMA devices this year, with smartphones expected to take up over 80 percent of that segment -- hardly a challenge considering they already reached 94.4 percent in the last quarter.
Going forward, as smartphone makers increase their focus on China by bringing out more TD-SCDMA handsets and China Mobile launches its 4G LTE network, the carrier will be able to reap the advantages of having a huge 2G subscriber base to transition to 3G.
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