Posted on 06/30/2005 11:54:46 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
HONG KONG -- China has over the past several months quietly scaled back plans for a multibillion-dollar upgrade of its wireless networks, dealing a possible blow to U.S. and European phone-equipment companies that hope to cash in on the construction.
China's powerful, state-controlled phone companies are now expected to deploy fewer -- and smaller -- "third-generation," or 3G, wireless networks across the country in the next few years, industry executives and analysts say. That means significantly less spending on big-ticket equipment from Western suppliers. Those companies built most of China's existing wireless infrastructure and were hoping for big upgrade contracts under some Chinese carriers' original, more ambitious plans.
Expectation of a "gold rush" from 3G network-building in China "is a little bit over," says Christoph Caselitz, head of mobile networks for Siemens AG's communications group in Munich. There is now "a more realistic view" about spending, he says. Big suppliers also are still waiting for the Chinese government to issue basic licenses to authorize phone carriers to offer 3G service, a waiting game that continues to frustrate some companies.
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China may be holding back on issuing licenses for another reason: to buy time to develop its controversial, homegrown technical standard, TD-SCDMA, which stands for "time-division synchronous code-division multiple access." That standard favors domestic vendors, such as Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., which have been tapped by regulators to develop products based on it. If China widely deploys TD-SCDMA, U.S. and European telecommunications vendors could lose out.
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They have no intention of paying for 3G IP, but instead are trying to get just enough of it in so that they can figure out how to do it themselves, then they will graft some useless addition to it, and claim that they invented it. The European cabal led by Nokia is desperate to keep Qualcomm and its allies from getting the China market, and China is great at playing the two sides against each other to get special treatment.
"China may be holding back on issuing licenses for another reason: to buy time to develop its controversial, homegrown technical standard"
This has been predicted for some time; it should come
as no suprise to anyone that follows the industry.
As the free traders always preach; open markets and
tech transfer is not a zero-sum game...that's why ultimately
its a "good thing". What they refuse to see or acknowledge is that China and a number of our other trading "partners" have a Zero Sum mindset.
China free trade ping
Yup. The Westerners are being played for saps again, surrendering absolutely vital next-generation technology...for peanuts. IF they were all smart, they would get together, and all pull out completely right now. And they likely should do a merged joint enterprise for unitary bids for Chinese projects. No more divide and conquer stuff.
ARTICLE SAYS..."China may be holding back on issuing licenses for another reason: to buy time to develop its controversial, homegrown technical standard, TD-SCDMA, which stands for "time-division synchronous code-division multiple access." That standard favors domestic vendors, such as Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., which have been tapped by regulators to develop products based on it. If China widely deploys TD-SCDMA, U.S. and European telecommunications vendors could lose out."
I had a post on this very thing (TD-SCDMA) several weeks ago.
It is no secret what Chinas game plan is...develop its own proprietary wireless and multimedia protocols...and freeze out Western nations.
Then...using their massive economies of scale...force their bastard standards on the rest of the world...starting with all the developing nations.
China is playing hardball...we are playing croquet.
Quote: China is playing hardball...we are playing croquet.
...with malletts(or whatever you call the croquet bats) made out of nerf ball material.
".....made out of nerf ball material."
For some reason..Im getting an image of John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin running around in some goofy outfits...
And the CCP hasn't backed off yet. See http://www.hkchcc.org/technology.htm.
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