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Shanghai Mobile plans 3,000 TD-SCDMA stations this year

By Hao Zhou (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-04-18 17:01

China Mobile's Shanghai branch said it will build more than 3,000 TD-SCDMA base stations in Shanghai this year and then introduce the latest third-generation (3G) wireless broadband technologies such as Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) and HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) in order to boost progress on construction of a "wireless city".

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Shanghai's 2G network now has nearly 6,000 sites, covering the whole city of Shanghai. However, the high-speed TD-SCDMA network only covers Shanghai's downtown area. "Therefore, we need more base stations to expand TD-SCDMA network's coverage," said an insider at China Mobile's Shanghai branch.

In line with current construction progress, Shanghai's TD-SCDMA wireless transit speed will reach 1M/s next year and hopefully meet 11M/s after 3G technologies are introduced.

Huang Gang, client services manager at the branch, said the TD network will not only connect users to the internet but also provide other kinds of information services such as cell phone mailboxes and traffic management.

A number of cities in other countries apply just one kind of technology within a single network, but Shanghai will introduce multi-layer and full-coverage wireless network to develop more commercial usages, said Huang.