Beijing to get 3G wireless service by Olympics

Beijing to get 3G wireless service by Olympics

China Mobile Communications Corp. will offer the service using the locally-developed Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access, or TD-SCDMA, standard.

China Mobile Communications Corp. will offer the service using the locally-developed Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access, or TD-SCDMA, standard in collaboration with handsets supplied by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co, the report stated. The service will not provide seamless compatibility with the 3G standards in use elsewhere in Asia, Europe and North America. Visitors to Beijing will find laptops running on WCDMA-based data cards, the European standard, will get much slower connection speeds as service will automatically draw down to a 2.5G technology. Visitors who acquire TD-SCDMA enabled phones or data cards may also experience glitches, as the service has reportedly suffered from irregular service quality, weak signals and limited coverage, report added.

Source:- Infoline