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Published On: Mar 16, 2007 11:12 AM
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Published On: Mar 16, 2007 11:12 AM
3G in China: Coming to you right after peace breaks out in the Middle East
In the
Hutong
Admiring the monochrome sky
1338 hrs.
Admiring the monochrome sky
1338 hrs.
Fons is quoting the Shanghai Daily quoting the
prognosticators at Norson Telecom Consulting that 3G licenses will not be issued
until the summer of 2007.
Okay class, new exercise.
1. Buy a copy of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.
2. Cross out the word "Godot" everywhere in the play, replacing it with "3G in China."
The ugly truth is that the window of opportunity for 3G in China may be closing while we wait for the guys at Datang and Siemens to make TD-SCDMA market ready.
Over the next two years we're going to start hearing more about fourth-generation (4G) mobile technologies, and while neither of the current offerings (WiMax and OFDM) look ready to upgrade/replace cellular, there is no lack of companies trying to come up with order-of-magnitude improvements over 3G. Indeed, Sprint is already going to give WiMax a go.
At what point will China's carriers simply say "bag it. We've waited this long, we're waiting for The Next Thing?"
Okay class, new exercise.
1. Buy a copy of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.
2. Cross out the word "Godot" everywhere in the play, replacing it with "3G in China."
The ugly truth is that the window of opportunity for 3G in China may be closing while we wait for the guys at Datang and Siemens to make TD-SCDMA market ready.
Over the next two years we're going to start hearing more about fourth-generation (4G) mobile technologies, and while neither of the current offerings (WiMax and OFDM) look ready to upgrade/replace cellular, there is no lack of companies trying to come up with order-of-magnitude improvements over 3G. Indeed, Sprint is already going to give WiMax a go.
At what point will China's carriers simply say "bag it. We've waited this long, we're waiting for The Next Thing?"
Posted: Mon - August 14, 2006 at 01:38 PM