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Article: China: China's TD-SCDMA Expansion Delayed Until After Olympics.
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- June 17, 2008
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China Mobile Communications, the parent to Hong Kong-listed China Mobile is reported to be planning a tender for the second phase of its TD-SCDMA network rollout, but not until following this August's Olympic Games.
Sources told the South China Morning Post that China Mobile is - as widely expected - to be forced to stick with the Chinese developed 3G technology while its rivals China Unicom and China Telecom will be allowed to use CDMA or WCDMA as they prefer.
"China Mobile will not expand the network to other cities before the Olympics," said Fok Tung-ling, chairman of Comba Telecom Systems Holdings, one of the equipment ...