Reports have been trickling in stating a TD-SCDMA trial network is going to be set up in Italy. Chinese network equipment maker Shanghai Potevio and Italian firm Mywave have apparently signed a contract. Bigwigs from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology,  theTD-SCDMA Industry Alliance, China Mobile and the Italian Embassy were there to witness the contract getting signed, which means a lot of witnesses might have to be exported to Sicily to make them disappear.

Mywave plans on targeting company clients with the TD-SCDMA trial network, which will be rolled out by Potevio. Shanghai Potevios kit has already been used for China Mobiles TD-SCDMA trial networks in Tianjin (which sounds similar to Tijuana) and Qinhuangdo (a name which sounds totally unsimilar to anything one can think of, albeit China).

TD-SCDMA, or Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access is China's home-grown 3G mobile standard. The standard was developed to foster Chinese industry, be independent from non-Chinese companies and keep investments Chinese. German corporation Siemens participated in designing the standard with the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Technology and invested in a joint venture way back years ago around the turn of the millennium, aeons before Nokia and Siemens merged their network divisions to, err, Nokia Siemens. How on earth do they come up with these names? X

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