Abstract
After postponing several times, China's Ministry of Information Industry is expected to issue third-generation (3G) cellular licences in 2008. Analysts suggest that cellular networks based on the three 3G standards approved by the International Telecommunications Union – China's homegrown Time Division – Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA), the US-based CDMA 2000 and Europe's Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) – will be established by the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Chinese policy-makers are understandably enthusiastic about TD-SCDMA's preliminary results. Critics, however, have been concerned that Beijing has demonstrated a clear bias towards the TD-SCDMA. The explanations offered in this chapter shed some light on motivators, enabling factors and mechanisms associated with the Chinese government's influence on 3G cellular standardisation.
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