China Mobile insiders have revealed that the company's headquarters insists on reaching a total of 260,000 TD-SCDMA users across the current 10 trial cities before the close of the Special Olympics on September 20. Headquarters is also on the verge of issuing orders detailing a second-stage mission to expand the network to 400,000 users by the end of the year.

Editor's Note: China Mobile president Wang Jianzhou said at China Mobile's mid-year earnings report conference on August 27 that China Mobile had 104,000 TD-SCDMA trial users, plus an additional 60,000 users from Olympic trials and 11,000 from commercial trials. For more background on this topic, please see "China Mobile TD-SCDMA Trial Users Reach 104,000", MD 8/28/08 issue.