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USTR Critical Of Japanese TD-CDMA Licensing

Posted by timothy on from the complicationism dept.

News for nerds writes "Yahoo Asia reports that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said in its annual report that the Japanese government has so far refused to issue experimental licenses to certain U.S. companies to test the new TD-CDMA technology. It attacks China and S. Korea along the line. The funny thing is, according to Impress Internet Watch, the Japanese government states that no U.S. companies had actually applied for the license so far. ITmedia also reports the Japanese government didn't deny foreign application, while criticizing the government for too narrow bandwidth of TD-CDMA that can be monopolized easily. Is this the precursor of another wave of pressure onto technology from Japan?"

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  1. That's it! by Walker2323 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's it - this means war!

    1. Re:That's it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      But we have always been at war with Eastasia!

  2. IT'S A COMMIE PLOT by Old+Wolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has anyone noticed that USTR is only 1 place in the alphabet different to USSR ?

  3. Re:Have we been here before? by Xoro · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think in the future GWBush will be remembered as alot of terrible things, one of which will be "the man who made the euro."

    As if Britain didn't have enough reasons to hate him.

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  4. Re:This is because... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Four letters:

    N T S C

  5. Re:new TD-CDMA by Misch · · Score: 1, Funny

    CDMA is going to be around for a while.

    The dyslexic among us would rather be rid of the DMCA. Alphabet soup is so fun.

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    --You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
  6. Re:Have we been here before? by uradu · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Serious enough to start a war, in fact.

    You mean ANOTHER one?!