1. Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest cell- phone maker, expects to introduce mobile phones based on China's homegrown high-speed standard (time division synchronous code division multiple access, or TD-SCDMA) by the first half of 2008 as the government is poised to issue licenses for the service.
2. It is awaiting China's issuance of so-called third-generation, or 3G, licenses to boost spending in the world's biggest mobile-phone market.
3. Its venture, TD Tech Ltd., with Siemens Network and Huawei Technologies Co won part of a tender bid by China Mobile Communications Corp asking equipment makers to bid for contracts worth as much as $3.1 billion to build a network based on TD-SCDMA technology.
4. It is adding an average of two engineers a month at the System Research Center in China, which has 35 researchers, part of the total 1,000 research and development engineers in China that are involved in the design of handsets.
5. It formed a joint research facility with Tsinghua University.
6. It introduced two services customized for its Chinese customers: Widsets allows users to access mobile Internet service and Mobiledu lets mobile users learn English through their cell-phones.
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