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Early Mover Launched For TD-SCDMA Market



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Jan 22, 2003 (Communications Today/PBI Media via COMTEX) -- A 3G technology
market yet to develop has the first of what will likely be multiple ventures
targeting it. Datang Mobile, Royal Philips Electronics [NYSE: PHG] and Samsung
Electronics formed Beijing T3G Technology to design and license core TD-SCDMA
(Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) chipsets and reference
designs for mobile devices. Datang has developed a TD- SCDMA test terminal and
hopes to accelerate the availability of the first commercial products through
the joint venture. Datang, which developed TD-SCDMA in collaboration with
Siemens [NYSE: SI], already operates a research laboratory in China with
Philips.

China plans to use TD-SCDMA, a narrow-band version of the wideband 3G CDMA
technology, along with the CDMA2000 and W-CDMA standards. While TD-SCDMA isn't
expected to be as widely deployed in China as the other 3G standards, the size
of the country's mobile market-the largest in the world with more than 200
million users-could make investing in TD-SCDMA developers a popular move. For
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