Maverick China Research

A recent article on TD-SCDMA in Hong Kong’s The Standard contained several quotes from Maverick China's Dave Carini. One of the other quotes caught our eye:

Wang Jing, secretary general of the TD-SCDMA Forum, an organization that promotes the technology, said: “China has put eight years of efforts into developing TD-SCDMA - the same amount of time we spent fighting the Japanese in the World War II.”

Although the incident at Marco Polo Bridge that sparked Japan’s war of aggression occurred in 1937, Japan had already invaded China as early as 1931 and set up a puppet state in north-eastern China called Manchuko by 1932. This makes the actual amount of time the Chinese spent fighting off the Japanese not 8 but 14 years. Since TD-SCDMA was set up in the year 2000, by applying the same logic, does this mean we can expect TD-SCDMA to be commercially ready by 2014?

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