Shanghaiist: 3G network now officially blanketing all of Shanghai

Miraculix

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:56:18 +0700

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....

Miraculix

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:53:28 +0700

Europe uses UMTS indeed, which is WCDMA, not CDMA2000

nanheyangrouchuan

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:19:48 +0700

Does this mean that the CDMA/TDMA hybrid is collecting dust on the shelf?

jamar

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:56:25 +0700

"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.

clarke

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:47:38 +0700

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.