Replies to post #140360 on InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[JimLur]

Olddog, IMO this guy might be a Nokia shill or an attorney for Nokia. Many will try and disrupt this thread but the dream team (us)will protect our assets.

Thanks for providing the silver bullet which he can't dodge.

[bulldzr]

Olddog, Jimlur, Loop or others...

Regarding kingofengland's statement that Alcatel had partnered with IP Wireless... Wasn't Alcatel originally one of the members of the B-CDMA alliance with InterDigital, Samsung, and Siemens? I seem to remember that they were involved originally and then dropped out.

If so, does anybody know if they have any carryover ip rights and may be bringing them to the IP Wireless partnership, assuming there is such a partnership?

I agree with you Jimlur and My3sons, I can see no real reason for this kingofengland to be here other than spread FUD and disrupt the board. e500 and some others seem to relish this type of thing for some reason. Check out his profile; he just joined iHub a few days ago.

[robert77087]

Can you verify that Seimens holds 51% of the joint venture with Huawei? I thought the Chinese government always held 51% of any venture for themselves and that foreign companies were forbidden to own a majority position.


Robert

[Data_Rox]

olddog - good post about all the investments in China for TD-SCDMA....to mention a few significant others....QCOM has signed numerous patent royalty licenses for equipment manufacturers making TD-SCDMA products (and will be signing more IN China soon), and even commented they will make TD-SCDMA chipsets.....Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Lucky Goldstar....many more. Siemens and Roke Manner even put out papers descibing the use of low chip rate (LCR is pretty close to TD-SCDMA) TDD in Europe.


Yes, if our new friend who states he was in China and that a product he held in his hand didn't work, and from that assumes that TD-SCDMA will never work....probably had the product confused with his pecker.

just my humble opinion only R^)

[magillagorilla]

Olddog – Good response to KOE, here is another suggestion, maybe he might want to check with the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry……LOL

China to build home-grown 3G network, according to Xinhua
January 21, 2006: 12:35 AM EST
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will build a stand-alone national mobile network based on TD-SCDMA, a home-grown standard for third-generation (3G) wireless telecoms service, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
"The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) ... has set ... TD-SCDMA as national technology standard for the telecommunication industry," Xinhua said late on Friday.
"The technology is already mature and ready for manufacturers to move ahead with production. ... A stand-alone network for TD-SCDMA will be built for the home-grown technology."
Xinhua said that a senior official with the MII had made it clear last month that TD-SCDMA would have a place in China's 3G market, and would be run by a "competent telecom operator."
Industry watchers were expecting China to build a complete or partial network based on the technology, which was developed in China but has encountered numerous bumps in the road in the process of its commercialization.
The announcement could signal that China is preparing to issue one or more 3G licenses in the near future, paving the way for licensees to build networks based on TD-SCDMA and the world's two most widely accepted standards, WCDMA, popular in Europe, and CDMA 2000, the standard developed by U.S. wireless technology giant Qualcomm Inc.
The field of licensees is expected to include some or all of China's four major telecoms operators, mobile carriers China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. and China Unicom Ltd., and fixed-line carriers China Telecom Corp. and China Netcom Group Corp.
Most industry watchers expect China to award its 3G licenses in the first half of this year, a move expected to unleash up to $12 billion in spending as the country sets up the high-speed data networks in time for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Most of the world's major telecoms equipment makers are hoping to get a piece of the action, and have also entered into various partnerships to support TD-SCDMA to curry favor with Beijing.
Major investors in TD-SCDMA include European firms Siemens and Nokia, while others who have formed alliances to support the technology include Motorola, Ericsson, Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/21/news/international/bc.telecoms.china.3g.reut/index.htm