(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-01-08 15:55

Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Group said it has set up a fourth-generation mobile technology research center in Beijing with Ericsson AB.

In a statement on its website on Monday, Datang Telecom Group said the two parties will co-develop LTE/TDD technology, a type of 4G wireless platform.

Details of the tieup were not provided in the statement.

Datang Telecom Group, the parent of Shanghai-listed Datang Telecom Technology, was the leading developer of China's homegrown 3G standard, known as TD-SCDMA.