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Ladies and Gentlemen, China Telecom has finally officially launched its 3G commercial service in Shanghai! The new 3G network signal covers all urban areas within the Outer Ring Road, as well as towns in suburban areas. The CDMA2000-based (that's the network usually used in Europe the U.S.) 3G network technology promises to be 20 times faster than our current 2G data streams - though whether it will ever reach advertised speeds is up for debate. From today to the end of the month, users who have agreed to use 250 yuan in monthly service feeds could get trial 3G Internet access cards and high-speed wireless internet access for 100 hours a month. Source: People's Daily
3G network now officially blanketing all of Shanghai
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I'd be shocked/concerned about a 3G network staying up or keeping up it's bandwidth promises in Shanghai. If 1/3 the population gets on board; that's still a larger group then has ever been tested in an area anywhere in the world.
"that's the network usually used in Europe"
Wrong. CDMA2000 is primarily used in the US, Canada, South Korea, and Japan. Europe uses UMTS, which is coming May 17th on China Unicom.
Europe uses UMTS indeed, which is WCDMA, not CDMA2000
Does this mean that the CDMA/TDMA hybrid is collecting dust on the shelf?
TD-SCDMA is still alive and well thanks to massive sponsorship by the government, unfortunatly nobody is gonna use it outside China (maybe North Korea :P), and nobody is doing handsets for it apart from a few Chinese handset manufacturers.... no Nokia, LG, Samsung, SEC, will do TD-SCDMA handsets....
Who is gonna buy a handset which only works in China?
TDSCDMA is an exercise in Chinese nationalism....