And who exactly is going to take advantage of 3G services? Not foreign tourists, since none of them will have a TD-SCDMA compatible phone. Nor will the vast majority of Chinese visitors from the rest of the country. Perhaps BOCOG could give a free phone them to the thousands of media members who will be covering the Games, though many reporters will likely be reluctant to use them, even after the story of steamed buns filled with cardboard the detailed database the government is building turns out to be another reporter’s error.
Increasingly it looks like only a few early adopters in Beijing and a handful of other cities running TD-SCDMA trials, along with perhaps the athletes themselves (assuming BOCOG chips in and gives them freebies), will be making use of the technology during the Olympics.
