To focus the mind on the staggering demand for Battery Back Up systems just for Mobile Base Stations (ignoring all the other, and not insignificant stuff than CHNS do).
The demand between now and 2012 is just massive........
Some snippets below -
http://www.tdscdma-forum.org/en/weekly/49/
China Mobile to Construct 140,000 TD-SCDMA Base Stations in 3 Years
Sina Tech
On April 7, Huang Yuhong, Head of Wireless Technology Research Group from the Research Institution of China Mobile revealed that TD-SCDMA can cover 70% of the Chinese cities by end of 2009. China Mobile plans to raise this ratio to 100% with more than 160,000 base stations in all cities by 2011. In the 1st round of TD-SCDMA network construction, China Mobile built more than 10,000 base stations. Since the 2nd round construction of TD-SCDMA network, China Mobile has intended to deploy about 140,000 base stations from 2009 to 2011. .................
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/17/content_11196469.htm
Chinese Vice Premier looks to domestic standard for 3G development
www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-17 05:22:58
...................By the end of this year, China Mobile is to invest 58.8 billion yuan (8.6 billion U.S. dollars) in building 60,000 new TD-SCDMA base stations covering 238, or 70 percent of, prefecture-level cities, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
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http://www.telecommagazine.com/NewsGlobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_5159
China: a future for Internet but guidelines are necessary
3G offers opportunities for growth and multiplier effect
by Ek Heng, Asia-Pacific Correspondent
Thu. April 23, 2009
..........................China Unicom goes 3G
In another development, China’s third telco, China Unicom also unveiled plans to launch its 3G WCDMA services by end-April. It was reported to announce that it is looking to provide 3G services in the areas of data card, mobile music, mobile TV, mobile search and video calls. China Unicom has earlier announced it would built its 3G networks across 55 cities by first half 2009 to be followed by coverage to 282 cities by year-end.