3G to decide the outcome of the critical moment foreign equipment manufacturers to sprint

Recently, in the development planning of Beijing City submitted to the Ministry of information industry of Beijing city's "11th Five-Year" telecommunications industry "(Draft) clearly pointed out: the development of the telecommunications industry will be on the Olympic special opportunities, promote the development of the third generation mobile communication. Coupled with the position of 3G at the 3G summit, it seems to be passing a strong signal: China has begun countdown.

"I am proud to say that the Chinese government now has a more comprehensive grasp of the evolution of 3G technology, compared with the rest of the world." Xi Guohua's remarks had attracted applause at the 3G summit, the applause from the 3G industry repan.

Cao Shumin, vice president of China Academy of Telecommunications Research and information industry Chinese explained "comprehensive": one is Chinese there is a huge potential market, there are 60 million new users per year; two is China 3G shoulder optimization competition, to form an effective competition; three 3G technologies mature now the equipment cost and cost of some 3G has been with 2G; four is the introduction of 3G with the entire telecommunications industry technology and business trends. Cao Shumin said: no matter from which point of view, the timing of China's launch of the basic 3G."

At the 3G summit, TD-SCDMA's field test report was released, adding a heavy weight to the arrival of 3G. Wei Guiming, director of the Telecommunications Research Institute of the Ministry of information industry, MTnet Office of the introduction of the results of the special test after the conclusion: TD-SCDMA has a large scale independent networking capabilities." This short comment has become the most weighty word at the summit. Each of the government officials who attended the meeting expressed satisfaction with the progress of TD-SCDMA. TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance Secretary General Yang Hua is released Rhetoric: "our preliminary estimates, according to the development of future growth in the number of users of China Mobile and 3G, the TD-SCDMA market will account for China market 1/3." Domestic 3G standards are maturing, is gradually dispel the government 3G decision-making process of a major concern. Next, TD-SCDMA demonstration network will be in full swing, which has become the last test before the commercial TD-SCDMA.

China 3G schedule is completely determined by the government, although in recent years the fate of 3G in Chinese but never heard striking one snag after another, clear voice of the government. Now, government officials have repeatedly stated that the government's attitude has never been clear. According to the Chinese government's consistent decision-making style, after a period of hints, the final 3G decision is not far away. The government's support, the dance for joy is that the equipment manufacturers to wait a few years, while the operator's attitude is still ambiguous, but the government's position has made the future situation gradually clear, in this context, a battle of 3G equipment market has been inevitable. If the Chinese 3G operator is about to stand on the commercial starting line, waiting for the starting gun, then the competition has entered the sprint equipment manufacturers.

"The Chinese have the world", this sentence in the same 3G device market. Whether it is a major international telecom equipment manufacturers, or the rise of Chinese manufacturers in the 3G era will face a reshuffle of China's telecommunications equipment market.

Complete transition

Prior to this, telecom equipment manufacturers have spent a long hard time. "In the Chinese market, 2005 is a year of transition for Ericsson and all the equipment providers." Ma Zhihong, President of Greater China, Ericsson recently told reporters.

In the first half of this year, telecom equipment makers spent a rather low and quiet day. When 3G license staged again and again, the wolf came after the story, 3G gradually increased uncertainty in china. Operators have to suspend or delay some of the network construction or upgrade plan, resulting in a substantial reduction in the size of the investment. Ministry of information industry statistics show that in the first 6 months of this year, the operator's capital investment decreased by 12.6%. Telecom operators have had to turn their attention to overseas markets, and in fact, most of the big lists they get are from outside china. The performance of them will undoubtedly have an impact, although foreign manufacturers are not published separately in the Chinese region revenue situation, but Ma Zhihong, President of Greater China, Ericsson said: "the first half of this year, Ericsson's revenue Chinese indeed declined." The 2G market in China occupies an absolute dominant position of the manufacturers on behalf of the basic situation of China's foreign equipment manufacturers in 2005.

Domestic manufacturers are not easy days. At the end of August, ZTE announced the interim report shows that the first half of ZTE achieved turnover of 10 billion 303 million yuan, down 12.5%, President Yin Yimin admitted that the ZTE performance decreased slightly". HUAWEI also further strengthened its international market expansion, and in the first half of 2005 to achieve overseas sales for the first time exceeded domestic sales.

Analysts believe that: the equipment business is generally difficult this year, largely due to the overall environment of China's communications market." But recently, a period of silence of the telecommunications equipment market suddenly lively. Major manufacturers scrambling to throw big". August, the two major telecom equipment giant Shanghai Bell Al Carter (ASB) and NOKIA has set up R & D center in Chengdu, the establishment of a difference of less than 10 days. Shanghai Bell Al Carter's Chengdu R & D center initial investment of 120 million yuan. NOKIA is set up in Chengdu after the second 3G R & D center in Hangzhou, covering all aspects of the application from the 3G to the wireless, NOKIA also announced the 3G R & D center in Hangzhou