... as Beijing pushes its own technology

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6 years ago, 3 Chinese engineers put together TD-SCDMA, a technology that delivers all the applications the Interent desires t o a handset, a home-grown system facing off against Qualcomm for the largest cellular market in the world. The standard will hit the market late 2001 and will offer royalties to Chinese companies holding patents. Siemens offered to develop joint technologies. The International Telecommunications Union has accepted the standards. The Chinese can now lobby phone equipment producers that once balked at the TD-SCDMA to supply 200 million mobile phone users.

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Telecom woes are unlikely to ease soon

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The Dow Jones Telecommunications Index dropped 30% over the last year and most analysts and executives are preparing for a financially woeful winter and beyond. ABN Amro reports that North American telecommunication companies will cut spending by 29% to $85 billion next year. The 4 regional Baby Bell carriers, usually the most stable industry veterans forecast the downturn to carry on through the middle of 2002. Tens of thousands of layoffs have already occurred. Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies have cut almost half of their employees. Some analysts, noting the recent spate of horrible financial reports, feel that the situation is so dire, it can only improve.

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AT&T's one-rate plan falls short of promise for broad, easy use

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AT&T's Digital One Rate cellular service, "...your wireless phone may be your only phone," is in fact very disappointing to the author. The actual service falls short because the network is overloaded, and there are many dead spots in big cities where calls get cut off. AT&T's idea of eliminating roaming and long-distance charges and providing a flat monthly fee is wonderful but the company not been able to live up to its raised expectations. The author advices the telecommunications giant to emulate America Online, which recovered from a fiasco years ago by improving capacity.

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