telecom - State Council moving on 3G

Interfax reports on the latest press conference of the State Council regarding 3G (I have added news searches on TD-SCDMA to my RSS-reader in case you might wonder about the latest upsurge on 3G-related news).

Deng, a senior advisor to the Chinese government, told Interfax that the main challenges in China's 3G operations are telecom carrier investment and expectations on the returns of China's homegrown 3G standard, TD-SCDMA.

Dow Jones had a piece a bit earlier with different bits of information.

"The current dominance of China Mobile and China Unicom is not suitable for market economy. It is better to award a TD-SCDMA license to a fixed-line operator, allowing it to enter into the mobile business," Deng said according to Interfax.

The internal struggle is in full swing.