China is launching it its own home-grown 3G mobile phone service which is TD-SCDMA which means it does not have to pay royalties to, mainly, American companies. Take it that the Chinese government is committed to making it work.

Then it becomes important that Agilent Technologies, the world’s largest measurement equipment provider, appears to be an early winner with this standard.

The US company estimates that it now holds more than 60% of China’s TD-SCDMA network testing equipment market. Which so far is not a great amount in total but will massiving expand once TD-SCDMA services shift into high gear which may well be this year.

Key mover will be China Mobile, now the world’s largest mobile carrier, which will build a commercial TD-SCDMA network across the nation.

In 2000, when Agilent decided to start researching Chinese mobile technology, it was considered a wild gamble, as few outside China believed the concept would ...

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