http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/china-shows-3g-flexibility/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:00:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/china-shows-3g-flexibility/#comment-136557 BlackBerryCool » Chinese 3G on hold? Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:07:35 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/23/004578/#comment-136557 [...] Previous reports of China’s tri-pronged 3G licensing getting through before the 2008 Beijing Olympics may have been a bold-faced lie. Aright, fine, maybe just a little inaccurate. Right now, China’s number one priority is to get its own carrier, China Mobile up and stable with fixed-line service before worrying about CDMA2000 or WCDMA, which won’t start until October. Give the home boys a bit of a head start, you know? It goes without saying that China’s got the biggest wireless market out there, and even if it takes a little longer, it can be the most diverse in being the only country to carry three internationally-recognized wireless standards. [...] [...] Previous reports of China’s tri-pronged 3G licensing getting through before the 2008 Beijing Olympics may have been a bold-faced lie. Aright, fine, maybe just a little inaccurate. Right now, China’s number one priority is to get its own carrier, China Mobile up and stable with fixed-line service before worrying about CDMA2000 or WCDMA, which won’t start until October. Give the home boys a bit of a head start, you know? It goes without saying that China’s got the biggest wireless market out there, and even if it takes a little longer, it can be the most diverse in being the only country to carry three internationally-recognized wireless standards. [...]

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