China has no timetable for issuing third-generation mobile telephone licences, a senior regulator announced yesterday, saying 3G services still lacked a clear business model.
娄勤俭的话清楚表明，中国官方并不急于把3G无线服务引入这个全球最重要的电信设备市场之一。
The comments by Lou Qinjian, vice-minister of information industry, make clear officials are in no rush to introduce 3G wireless services in one of the world’s most important markets for telecoms equipment.
International equipment manufacturers have for years keenly awaited Chinese approval for 3G, which is expected to unleash a multibillion-dollar spending wave on mobile networks.
While 3G technology was “mature” internationally, its operating model and capacity for future development were “still not that great”, Mr Lou said in a rare news conference held to mark the congress of China's ruling Communist party in Beijing.
娄勤俭表示：“真正发牌还要考虑运营模式问题和各种管理问题，目前这些问题还在研究过程中。”
“To actually issue licences, we need to consider the business model and all kinds of management issues ? and we are still in the process of researching these,” Mr Lou said.
Some analysts believe Beijing's main reason for delay is to allow its favoured TD-SCDMA 3G technology to catch up with the much more widely used European-backed WCDMA standard and its US rival CDMA2000.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, chief executive of Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, said it was “very clear” TD-SCDMA would be one of the 3G technologies used in China.
Beijing is clearly concerned that China’s new 3G networks might prove a poor return for its four big state-controlled but internationally listed operators.
Chang Xiaobing, chairman of China Unicom, the country’s number two mobile operator, yesterday said the global development of 3G had shown the government “was not wrong” not to rush to issue licences.
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