ITU TW is movingThis year the show landed in Hong-Kong but with a low attendance. The next edition comes back in my hometown in Geneva. Our HP team was there to present the alfa-version of our Instant Communication solution over an IMS networks.
TD-SCDMA starts slowlyI went to the anticipated press announcement of 3G trials with China Mobile, China Netcom, China Telecom with 10,000 users., Datang announced trials in Hong Kong, and ZTE in Romania. Alcatel Shanghai Bell confirmed their collaboration with Datang Mobile, and in parallel to ZTE released TD-SDMA supporting HSDPA. By 2008, TD-SCDMA will support the same 3GPP's evolution roadmap as W-CDMA. In the short term the terminal supply may be limited.
PCCW 3G VideoPCCW mobile demonstrated their Easy Watch 3G video monitoring service. Unique pan-tilt and zoom functions give more control than usual fixed services. Video-calls are charged $1-2/min for on/off-net calls. PCCW also offers a video conferencing services. In parallel PCCW has a DVB-H trial with Motorola.
Video devicesHuawei demonstrated video with the Viewpoint familly. A number of 3G-TDSCDMA video devices were also anounced.
