That's the question European and American firms are asking as Beijing becomes the world's largest cellular market and creator of a home-grown 3G technology. Along with reducing interference, smart antenna technology will increase a network's capacity, require less power and reduce costs. Interference will be a significant obstacle for high-speed wireless systems. Such synchronization also simplifies system requirements and costs.
China is the world's largest cellular market.
Like the U.S., China is quickly running out of radio spectrum for its 1.2 billion citizens. From Ericsson to Motorola, China is a lucrative market for companies helping the country update its massive GSM network. The immense number China's wireless users, coupled with vast services and complex infrastructure raised some critical development issues. One of the most important was which mobile standard the Chinese government would back. Then the Chinese government announced that it would not pick a 3G standard for at least another year.