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China moving 3G on its own

The ability to set industry standards, a combination of power and pride, is a key objective for China to sustain its rise as a telecom powerhouse, and the country took a large step in that direction late last week with the announcement that Datang Mobile and Alcatel Shanghai Bell had completed the industrialization processes for TD-SCDMA products and were ready to deliver them to market.TD-SCDMA is China's indigenous technology standard for third-generation mobile telecom.It will compete with CDMA2000 from the United States and with Europe's version, WCDMA.