Fresh in the wake of China’s massive wireless restructuring, execs are already on the offensive with fightin’ words that suggest true, standards-based 4G could be coming sooner rather than later. Though he says EV-DO Rev. A is still in the cards for the short term, China Telecom’s CEO says that GSM and CDMA networks alike will all converge to LTE in the country, thus signalling the abandonment of the CDMA-favored UMB migration path by yet another of the world’s wireless juggernauts. All told, it’s looking promising that the overwhelming majority of the world’s countries will be on the same cellular technology page within the next decade or so — but who would’ve thought the creator of TD-SCDMA would commit to being one of the first to flip the switch?
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China to abandon UMB, snag LTE within 2 to 3 years
Skate back home
taken on: February 27th, 2008
at: 圆明园路上海 (Shanghai, YuanMingYuan Road)
by: Mei
with: Sony DSC-T5
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The Shanghai Beat: Graffiti Shanghai
by Adam J. Schokora, DanWeiTV.
Danwei TV presents episode 4 of The Shanghai Beat, titled "Graffiti Shanghai" (with bilingual subtitles). Featured band: 21 Grams. You can also watch on Tudou (faster loading / higher quality in China).
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China limits plastic bag use
My friends usually blame me for highlighting only bad points in China… (i.e. like a good regular 老外 in the Middle Kingdom lol)
That’s why I’m glad to broadcast a great news: China is starting to ban plastic bags!
Since June 1st, no more convenient store or supermarket provide plastic bag for free. My only wish is that the cost of a plastic bag won’t be too low, otherwise the consumer will be ok to pay an extra fee…
An effective & easy way would be to manufacture & propose recycled paper bag (coz actually we need bags!).
Anyway that’s a good first step in order to avoid more things like that (picture taken by me in Yunnan, Xishuangbanna in August 2006):
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China’s TD-SCDMA expansion delayed until after Olympics
China Mobile is reported to be planning a tender for the second phase of its TD-SCDMA network rollout, but not until following this August’s Olympic Games.
Sources told that China Mobile is - as widely expected - to be forced to stick with the Chinese developed 3G technology while its rivals China Unicom and China Telecom will be allowed to use CDMA or WCDMA as they prefer.
"China Mobile will not expand the network to other cities before the Olympics," said Fok Tung-ling, chairman of Comba Telecom Systems Holdings, one of the equipment suppliers to China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA networks. However, he then confirmed that the mobile operator is expected to tender for a contract to expand the network after the Olympics. "The next phase of the TD-SCDMA network expansion will not be limited to the existing 10 cities, and is likely to be aggressively rolled out on the mainland," Mr Fok added.
China’s CCID Consulting issued a report earlier this year which predicted that the country would have 51 million TD-SCDMA subscribers by 2011. CCID Consulting forecast that after an introduction period of deployment in 2008, TD-SCDMA will enter a peak period of deployment between 2009 and 2011.
去滑冰跟朋友们
上个星期（在六月五号）我们很幸运因为最近，陆家嘴的滑冰场常常在修理，所以冰的品质真的很丑。但是现在他们结束，而且人不多因此很多空间让我们玩的开心！
现在Rastablub和我也有我们的自己爱慕的俱乐部哈哈哈 我说关于梅，三巧和Victoria 
都是很好的学生，她们的水平越来越好！
这里有一个短的电影：
Camping in China = bad behaviour
The organizers of this summer’s Beijing Olympics reminded foreigners coming to China for the Games to behave, warning them that everything from protesting without permission to sleeping outdoors was banned.
The extensive list, written only in Chinese, has been put on the organizers’ official website.
So you can forget about sleeping outdoors to save a bit of money or to enjoy camping in the nature (or what it remains…).
It’s banned, in order to "maintain public hygiene and the cultured image of cities".
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