Licenses for China's homegrown third-generation (3G) wireless standard may not be granted for another one or two years, an Ernst & Young partner was quoted as saying in a Shanghai local newspaper report on Apr 14.The rollout of the local standard TD-SCDMA will likely mirror that of GSM (global system for mobile communications) in Europe, where commercial trials lasted for 12 to 18 months before it became widely used, said Jonathan Dharmapalan, partner and head of Ernst & Young's global telecommunications centre in Beijing.
While in the meantime, former Datang Mobile chief scientist Li Shihe, commonly known as the "father of TD-SCDMA," said recently that he fears TD-SCDMA will be "put to sleep" in the near future, and called upon relevant government departments to draft a clear policy for the development of TD-SCDMA as soon as possible.
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