Domestic 3G Standard Test Liyingwaihe Romania commercial ice

Although only one of only 5 hybrid network base station and the WCDMA project, but ZTE to Romania as the bridgehead of the European market to promote TD-SCDMA, which contains China government support, and look forward to China operators.

In the industry is still one of the TD-SCDMA (3G standard) in China to follow the argument, Eastern Europe, Romania lit the first light of TD-SCDMA.

At the beginning of November, headquartered in Shenzhen, ZTE announced the full set of TD-SCDMA equipment has been successfully applied in Romania. This is also marked by the Chinese people will take the lead in the independent TD-SCDMA standard commercial trials abroad, which will break the TD-SCDMA in China's domestic commercial deadlock will play a role in fueling.

Loan market

In the industry view, ZTE Romania orders are not surprising. All along, including ZTE, HUAWEI and other China Telecom equipment manufacturers and operators in Romania to maintain a good relationship. However, according to Xinhua News Agency reporters in Romania, ZTE does not seem to release the news to the media in Romania, but China is more concerned about the domestic media.

Therefore, some people speculated that Romania operators may encounter financial difficulties, and hope that China's banks to provide credit support.

Prior to that, there was a precedent for Chinese banks to provide buyer's credit to Romania Telecom projects.

In June 13, 2004, when China import and Export Bank President Yang Zilin and Romania post and telecommunications company president Radu signed a total of $128 million of the buyer's credit agreement, to support the construction of Romania Telecom ZTE project. Ministry of Commerce has said that this is a loan for resources, loans for the market, the export buyer's credit model, is a typical example of the national policy financial services to support the development of foreign contracted projects.

Behind this contract, operation and management of ZTE will also Chinese and China Unicom joint as a strategic partner in the project, Chinese Unicom and keep ZTE shares in Romania to acquire the rights of post and telecommunications company. This model, in fact, is to encourage domestic telecom operators to go abroad to explore another country, so it has been supported by the parties concerned.

In November 10th, China Unicom China a close to the project sources, at the end of last year due to changes in the situation in Romania, the project did not further implement the plan, originally posted to Romania as a senior adviser to the staff has not started.

However, under the efforts of the Chinese government, China's operators and equipment manufacturers to go out of the country seems to be getting along the road.

In October, Wang Xudong, Minister of the Ministry of information industry, led a delegation of government officials and 9 manufacturing and operating companies to visit Hungary and Romania. During the visit, and Romania signed a memorandum of understanding in the field of information technology and communication cooperation, clear the two countries will be in the 3G development, the development of third party markets and other areas of cooperation. It is reported that Romania post, China Unicom, ZTE three parties once again signed a cooperation agreement.

This is the time, ZTE first disclosed: Romania operators decided to provide a full range of TD-SCDMA products from the system to the terminal by ZTE, including 5 base stations.

Operators to jointly promote the equipment?

In a high-profile ZTE announced on the domestic media behind the construction of the first TD-SCDMA commercial test network in Romania, seems to be intentionally or unintentionally to avoid the operator which is the specific deployment of the network in Romania.

According to Romania media reports, Zsolt Nagy, Minister of communications and information technology, announced on September, will be issued two 3G licenses, tender in October or in November to start, and the results will be announced in the first quarter of next year. Some people are expected, ZTE did not announce which specific operators to build TD-SCDMA commercial test network, may be involved with a new 3G license operators interested in bidding.

Currently there are 3 major operators in Romania. Orange, which has 6 million mobile users is currently the largest mobile operator in Romania, has announced that it will invest in the first quarter of 2006, based on the WCDMA 3G business. Orange's main rival, Vodafone Connex, which was held in the spring of 2005, first released the 3G telephone business. Another Zapp is provided by the CDMA service.

Analysts said the Romania government may wish to adopt a new 3G technology standards to promote market competition. At present, the 120 3G licenses issued in the world, there are 101 reserved for the TDD band, which provides a great market space for the construction and operation of TD-SCDMA networks.

There is no news that Romania post Telecom will participate in the new 3G license bid. But people familiar with the situation is expected, if the TD-SCDMA trial was recognized by the Romania authorities, no matter what operators decide the future by using this technology, ZTE will use the Romania post and telecommunications company or similar construction mode of the TD-SCDMA network, believe it can also obtain the relevant domestic bank support, and ultimately a China domestic telecom operators will participate in this project will be the biggest question mark.

Referring to ZTE's model in Romania Post telecommunications company, ZTE provided the equipment, after the signing of the agreement to transfer a certain proportion of the shares of Romania to give ZTE, China Unicom as an operational consultant to retain