Report Says 3G Investment to Intensify in Advance of 2008

2004/07/15

China's 3G high-speed mobile data networks will service 72.37 million users by 2008, according to a report issued by Interfax on June 17, 2004. Digital Olympics watchers predict 3G will be a key technology used to support the Beijing Games, because 3G supports demanding wireless data applications such as full-motion video on 3G-capable handsets.

The Interfax report predicts that more than US$5 billion will be invested in China's 3G sector in 2005, with the WCDMA standard receiving the greatest proportion. The competing TD-SCDMA standard is likely to be a second-place runner, with the CDMA2000 in third, the report suggests.

The report predicts that China Mobile, the dominant mobile carrier, will "definitely choose" the WCDMA standard, while runner-up China Unicom will opt for CDMA2000. China Netcom, China Telecom, China Railcom and ChinaSat are likely to get 3G licenses.



	Article featured in Business Beijing, July 2004 Publication sponsored by Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Development & Reform Commission of Beijing Municipality, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (Beijing Sub-Council)