The first China-made 3rd-genaration (3G) mobile phone was unveiled as Datang Mobilecom announced on March 30 that the world's first TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) was successfully developed, which marks a great breakthrough in the terminal research and development and a step forward of China-made 3G mobile phone toward large-scale commercial use.

Presently, there are thee mainstream standards for 3G mobile phone: European Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), the US Code Division Multiple Access 2000 (CDMA 2000) and China-proposed Time Division -- Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA). Previously, the former two have had successful example in commercial use and do not lack compatible terminal mobile phones while the China's version of 3G Datang advocates was almost zero.

Currently, the second round of outfield test organized by the Ministry of Information Industry is to begin. In May 2004, TD-SCDMA will undergo examination.

A sample though, the mobile phone is a breakthrough of "zero" for the world in TD-SCDMA. In September 2003, Chongqing University of Post and Telecom developed a sample of the so-called "first TD-SCDMA mobile phone" , which, as experts said, was a interim product based on the current 2G mobile phone web. Therefore, the first China-made 3G mobile phone just made its debut.

Sources say there are tens of domestic and foreign companies participating in TD-SCDMA mobile phone as the prospect of commercial use for 3G TD-SCDMA turns brighter. The breakthrough of this 3G mobile phone in terminal bottleneck will greatly speed up the TD-SCDMA terminal industrialization.

As learned the TD-SCDMA mobile phone self-developed by Datang Mobilecom will be adopted in the upcoming second round of outfield test and mass production is probable in the first half of 2005.

(People's Daily April 1, 2004)