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Chinese technology vendors have been struggling with high patent fees as they loose at least 5% of their sales income to royalty costs if they adopt WCDMA or CDMA 2000 technology in their equipment. The Chinese have therefore invested heavily in the research of homegrown wireless standards and aim to become as self-sufficient as possible in cellular technology. Their 3G standard known as TD-SCDMA is a technically strong standard and trials have shown that it can be 10%-15% more spectrally efficient than WCDMA and CDMA 2000.

Trials have already happened with results being mixed. But with a planned role out in conjunction with other technologies for the Olympics next year, a number of crucial questions remain unanswered.

- Licenses have not been issued but with contracts already announced are 3G licenses a forgone conclusion?
- Will SK Telecom's heavy investment in China and TD-SCDMA see the technology move outside of China and take advantage of TDD worldwide?
- Will operators invest heavily in handset acquisition or will the wait till WCDMA integration tests are totally successful?
- What opportunities are still available for external manufacturers and vendors to work with the Chinese manufacturers on TD-SCDMA?
- How will this impact on US and European IP rights and the royalties they earn from current Chinese operations?
- Nokia & Motorola have already committed to TD-SCDMA models but will their commitment continue?

TD-SCDMA is also very suited to asymmetric data traffic as it is based on the TDD duplexing method. It is expected that TDD will be used a lot more frequently as cellular standards evolve due to the congestion of radio spectrum and the increase in the need for mobile data services - is this true and what will the need for data services be, within China and other TD-SCDMA networks?

According to the findings of this new in-depth report, visiongain reveals that there is currently no need for WCDMA/TD-SCDMA interoperability tests and for the development of mobile terminals that are able to support two 3G standards.

With other standards competing with this for market share how critical will the governments influence continue to be? This report answers that question, with an analysis of other players in the market. It examines the Chinese and international vendors as well as handset manufacturers and their offerings.

The report provides in-depth market analysis upon these areas, and extensively identifies both market opportunities and forecasts. The study also assess' the challenges faced by the relevant companies, and why foreign companies should also pay a part in the development of these Chinese standards.

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Also, the government is in strong favour of the local 3G standard and one of the key reasons why it has delayed 3G licenses for so long is that is waiting for the technology to mature so that it can equally compete with the other two international 3G standards. However government support and pressure cannot provide market success. But ordering this report will seriously help yours, order it now.

The Chinese government was also heavily in favour of China Unicom’s CDMA network but the company currently has significantly more GSM users. The fact that TD-SCDMA will get deployed before the other two 3G standards will help the technology gain an important share of the initial 3G market in China. However as other technologies start to be introduced into the Chinese market it is expected that TD-SCDMA will start to loose its lead in the local 3G market. TD-SCDMA will act more as a stepping stone for Chinese wireless technologies to be more successful in the future as networks move towards 4G.

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Time Division Synchronous-Code Division Multiple Access
Figure 1. Radio interface specifications, approved by the ITU in November 1999
Figure 2. TD-SCDMA is one of the two air interfaces used for IMT-TD
1.2 The need for TD-SCDMA
1.3 Scope of this report

Chapter 2 TD-CDMA and TD-SCDMA
2.1 FDD (Frequency Division duplex)
Figure 3. The FDD process
2.2 TDD (Time Division Duplex)
Figure 4. Dynamic bandwidth allocation in TDD
2.3 Hardware Costs of TDD and FDD systems compared
2.4 Summary of key differences between FDD and TDD
Table 1. Key differences between the FDD and TDD duplexing schemes
2.5 UMTS TDD
2.6 SCDMA
2.6.1 Differences between SCDMA and TD-SCDMA
2.7 Technologies used in a TD-SCDMA network
2.7.1 General
2.7.2 The use of CDMA
2.7.3 Improving signal quality through the use of the Joint Detection scheme
2.7.4 Improving the overall signal quality and capacity through the use of Smart Antennas
2.7.5 Dynamic Channel Allocation
2.7.6 Uplink Synchronization
2.8 Handovers in TD-SCDMA
2.9 The TD-SCDMA network
Figure 5. TD-SCDMA network architecture
2.10 TD-SCDMA overall spectral efficiency
2.10.1 Suitability of the TD-SCDMA standard for asymmetric services
2.10.2 Suitability of the TD-SCDMA standard for deployment in large cities
Table 2. Population density of various selected Chinese provinces
Table 3. Population density of various countries of comparable population size to the Chinese provinces
2.11 Coverage of a TD-SCDMA base-station
2.12 TD-SCDMA user mobile speeds
2.13 Applications enabled through the use of the TD-SCDMA standard
2.14 Evolution of TD-SCDMA networks
2.14.1 HSPA based on the TD-SCDMA standard
2.14.2 LTE-TDD
2.15 China and 4G
Table 4. Key Requirements of a 4G cellular system
2.15.1 The FuTURE project
2.15.2 Chinese 4G trials
2.15.3 When will 4G be deployed in China?

Chapter 3: Operator Attitudes towards the TD-SCDMA standard
3.1 Operators in China
3.1.1 China Mobile
Chart 1. Increase in China Mobile's subscribers (2002-2006)
3.1.2 China Unicom
Chart 2. China Unicom's CDMA and GSM Subscribers at the end of 2006
3.1.3 China Telecom
3.1.4 China Netcom
3.2 The market performance of China Telecom and China Netcom
Chart 3. China Telecom and China Netcom subscribers, as at end 2006
3.3 TD-SCDMA trials
Table 5. Equipment manufacturers involved in TD-SCDMA network roll-out
Chart 4. TD-SCDMA equipment vendors in China Mobile's base-station orders (%), as at April 2007
3.3.1 Measurement equipment used in TD-SCDMA trials
3.4 Issues with TD-SCDMA trials
3.5 Spectrum allocated for cellular standards in China
Figure 6. Spectrum allocation in China
3.6 3G Spectrum licences and possible reorganization of the operator landscape in China
Table 6. Reasons why China’s 3G licences have been delayed
3.7 Operator concerns relating to TD-SCDMA
3.7.1 China Mobile and the deployment of EDGE
3.8 3G in China during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
3.9 Reasons why China Mobile will be chosen to operate a TD-SCDMA network
3.10 SK Telecom and its TD-SCDMA trial

Chapter 4. TD-SCDMA vendor, handset and chipset strategies and products
4.1 Network Equipment Manufacturers
4.1.1 3G network equipment and handsets produced by ZTE
4.1.2 TDSCDMA products of Datang Mobile and the company’s key role in the standard
4.1.3 TD-Tech and its TDSCDMA products and activity
4.1.4 China Putian (Potevio) and its TDSCDMA products and activity
4.1.5 Overall TD-SCDMA network equipment vendor strategies
Chart 5. TD-SCDMA base-stations to be deployed in Shenzhen by TD-Tech, ZTE and Ericsson (%)
Table 7. Activities of key foreign manufacturers in TD-SCDMA network equipment
Table 8. Solutions provided by each of the main 4 equipment suppliers in China
4.2 Handsets
Table 9. TD-SCDMA device plans of “big five” handset manufacturers
4.3 Handset Manufacturers
4.3.1 Ningbo Bird
4.3.2 Lenovo Mobile
4.3.3 Amoi
4.3.4 Other TD-SCDMA enabled handsets
4.3.5 Other announced TD-SCDMA enabled dual-mode handsets
Figure 7. The Samsung SGH-T578
Chart 6. Chinese handset market shares Q1 2007
Table 10. Selected well-known TD-SCDMA/2G dual-mode handsets
4.4 Overall strategy of TD-SCDMA handset vendors
4.5 Chipsets used in TDSCDMA compliant handsets and base-stations
4.5.1 Spreadtrum Communication solutions
4.5.2 Commit Solutions
4.5.3 T3G Solutions
4.5.4 TDSCDMA compliant solutions developed by Analog Devices (ADI)
4.5.5 PicoChip
4.6 Overall Strategy of TD-SCDMA Chipset vendors
Table 11. Products of Key TD-SCDMA chipset vendors
4.7 Software used in TD-SCDMA mobile terminals
4.7.1 The Arena Community
4.8 Cost Difference between TD-SCDMA and CDMA 2000/WCDMA equipment

Chapter 5: TD-SCDMA Market Opportunities
5.1 General Market Prospects
Chart 7. Growth of UK mobile data users (July 2006-March 2007)
5.2 Spectrum Issues relating to market opportunities of the TD-SCDMA standard
Table 12. Allocation of TDD spectra throughout various countries
5.3 TD-SCDMA market opportunities outside China
5.4 TD-SCDMA market success and handsets
Chart 8. Growth in the market share of local handset companies throughout China
5.5 3G and TD-SCDMA market forecasts
Chart 9: Forecast 3G users in China 2008-2012
Chart 10. Forecast for TD-SCDMA 3G users in China (2008-2012)
5.6 Market Opportunities of 3G in China
Chart 11. Annual mobile data revenues in Japan, the U.S and China for 2006
5.7 Government support does not guarantee market success
5.8 Why foreign companies should also play a part in the development of Chinese Standards

Chapter 6. Conclusion

Appendices
Appendix A. About visiongain
Appendix B. Visiongain report evaluation form