CEC Develops 3G Mobile Secretly

（PdayResearch Sep 16,2002）

China Electronics Corporation (CEC) is developing 3G mobile phone secretly and will expectedly release sample models before the end of next year.

The news is proved by Sun Jingtao, the President of CEC's subsidiary CEC Sino, as the corporation is developing 3G mobile phone. The corporation has great investment on 3G phone R&D though China has not released 3G license to date.

At present over 100 3G licenses were released and several hundred 3G equipment agreements were signed all over the world, but 3G mobile phones are in operation only in Japan and North Korea, which can access Internet with high speed, and be used for film, screen phone and mobile shopping. Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are taking great efforts on 3G phones in attempt to take a leading position in the future mobile communication.

CEC Sino is reportedly developing two 3G mobile models, one that supports European WCDMA and another that supports Datang's TD-SCDMA. There are three 3G standards, the remaining is Qualcomm's CDMA2000.

Intel and UT-Starcom are taking part in the development of Chinese 3G mobile phones. "We chose the two corporations as partners since UT-Starcom has good base stations and soft switch equipments and Intel has good chipsets, " said Sun.

CEC became the biggest independent mobile R&D center globally after it acquired Philips's Mobile R&D Base. The corporation is integrating the power of 600 engineers in France, USA, North Korea and China to develop state-of-the-art mobile technology.