China wants its 4G standard adopted globally
With 3G just getting a foothold in most of the world's wireless markets, China is preparing to leapfrog those efforts and get 4G pushed out to as many customers as it can. The China Ministry of Information Industry wants the 4G mobile standard it has developed adopted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as early as 2008. China is pushing the homebrew TD-SCDMA as the foundation for its 4G proposal. Regardless of what the ITU decides, we get giddy when any global market envisions wireless data speeds to the tune of 80Mbps. The only issue is that TD-SCDMA still has bugs that Chinese telecom personnel are still trying to quash; if they don't, the ITU may be frowning when China comes calling next year.
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person4 @ Apr 8th 2007 2:21PM
China is also the country that mandated USB standardized device charges (and synchronization). This makes a HUGE difference in consumer convenience and reduction of waste. While state mandated standardization can lead to soviet style inefficiencies, when it is market based it can lead to a shortcut to the next level of usefulness, rather than heel dragging and confusion that only benefits, in the most crass way, manufacturers.
Rich @ Apr 8th 2007 3:45PM
They'd get my vote if it stopped Qualcomm going around bullying and suing everyone.
PEZ @ Apr 8th 2007 6:54PM
The only standard I would even consider fom China is crab-rangoons.
Tim @ Apr 3rd 2008 12:12PM
...or General Tso's