EJL Wireless Research has released its mobile subscriber and mobile terminal (handsets and data cards) forecast for TD-SCDMA technology. The company is predicting that TD-SCDMA subscribers in China will reach 12 million by 2012 and that overall mobile terminal shipments will equal 11.5 million units by 2012.

A compete analysis of wireless base station infrastructure deployments, handset and data card tender results from China Mobile as well as the current semiconductor chipset landscape is presented in this report.

"ZTE secured 27% of total TD-SCDMA handsets awards while Guangzhou New Postcom has captured 23% of handsets for 2008. Non-domestic Chinese handset suppliers have won only 13% of total handset awards and 0% of data card awards. Chinese equipment giant Huawei Technologies has only won less than 1% of total handset unit volumes so far," says founder and President, Earl Lum.

"With a new tender for infrastructure base station equipment expected in Q3 from China Mobile, we believe that both ZTE and Alcatel-Datang will again be awarded the largest market shares for this tender," says Lum.