Who will get China´s 3G dowry?

Author

Jen Lin-Liu

Volume

40

Issue

4

fYear

2003

fDate

4/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

18

Abstract

The situation in China mainly boils down to a contest between two versions of code division multiple access (CDMA). One is Europe´s wideband CDMA (WCDMA), which was designed to be as compatible as possible with Europe´s hugely successful second-generation Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). The other, CDMA2000, is preferred by US manufacturers like Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies, as well as Qualcomm. The picture has been complicated, however, by China´s development of an indigenous alternative, combining elements of other standards. China´s Ministry of Information Industry has been working with Siemens to develop a system it calls TD-SCDMA, for time-division synchronous code-division multiple access.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; broadband networks; code division multiple access; radio networks; 3G communication systems; CDMA; CDMA2000; China; Europe; GSM; Global System for Mobile Communication; Lucent Technologies; Motorola; Qualcomm; Siemens; WCDMA; code division multiple access; time-division synchronous code-division multiple access; wideband CDMA; GSM; Internet telephony; Manufacturing; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Multiaccess communication; Regulators; Standards development; Time division synchronous code division multiple access; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSPEC.2003.1191777

Filename

1191777