China continues to play coy about when it plans to issue 3G licenses. Lou Qinjian, vice-minister of China's information industry, indicated China has no timetable for issuing the licenses, saying 3G services still lacked a clear business model. Of course, the Chinese government has been pushing the country's home-grown standard, TD-SCDMA, and has a vested interest in making sure it competes well with the more mature 3G technologies, WCDMA and EV-DO. And vendors have been wringing their hands to get 3G in China, especially with all of the profit warnings.
To read more about China's 3G views:
- take a look at this article [1] from the Financial Times
Related articles:
China's quest to push TD-SCDMA could hurt country's operators [2]
China pushes for TD-SCDMA [3]
Carrier capex down for Q3 [4]
Ericsson's profit warning tanks share price [5]
Links:
[1] http://biz.yahoo.com/ft/071018/fto101820071917269225.html?.v=1
[2] http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/editor-s-corner/2006-02-27
[3] http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/china-pushes-for-td-scdma/2006-02-13
[4] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/carrier-capex-down-q3/2007-09-25?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss
[5] http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/ericssons-profit-warning-tanks-share-price/2007-10-16