4th June 2008

The TD-SCDMA and LTE Summit (Shanghai, 31st May – 1st June) was a good opportunity for over 400 delegates to take stock of the weeks’ restructuring of the Chinese telecoms sector, which will lead to there being three mobile operators – each expected to receive a 3G licence in the near future.

TD-SCMDA is incorporated within 3GPP specifications, and in Shanghai Adrian Scrase, 3GPP PCG Secretary, confirmed that LTE (TDD mode) provides a future-proof evolution for TD SCDMA.

LTE and LTE-Advanced are very much under the spot-light in the standards world. After a first workshop in Shenzhen, China (April 08) - the second 3GPP TSG RAN LTE-Advanced Workshop has just been completed in Prague (28th May), endorsing Technical Report 36.913 – which contains the set of technical requirements for LTE-Advanced.

Details of the TD-SCDMA and LTE Summit are on-line at http://www.tdscdma-forum.org/EN/events/luntan/83.asp