To cooperate in Japan and China for the development of next-generation mobile phones, terminals etc.

Following third generation mobile phones such as the current W-CDMA and CDMA 2000 1x "LTE (Long Term Evolution)It is also decided in Japan that the standard called "3.9 Generation Mobile Phone" will be introduced, but it became clear that Japan and China jointly carry out the development of next generation mobile phones.

I am very concerned about the outflow of technology, but what kind of cooperation will be done? Also, the merits that Japan can obtain by this are clarified.

Details are as follows.
Next-generation mobile phone, Japan-China cooperation terminal and infrastructure improvement, agreement at the prime ministerial talks

According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun news report, as a part of strengthening strategic and reciprocal relationship in Beijing on April 29 tomorrow Prime Minister Aso and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will meet in Beijing, the next generation mobile phone in Japan and China It is said that an agreement on the framework of technical cooperation for development will be made.

This is aimed at shifting to the third generation mobile phone (3G) and the 3.9th generation (3.9G), which is the mainstream communication standard in China, and it is aimed at promoting public and private partnerships for new terminal development and infrastructure development The two governments will lead cooperation.

Moreover, with such technical cooperation, we are said to support the advancement of Japanese companies into the world's largest mobile phone market, which is estimated to be about 650 million in China.

By the way, the new high-speed railway in China, which was manufactured with the technology of Siemens in Germany,It is announced that "China is fully holding intellectual property rights"From,China with the speculation of wanting to make domestic communication system the global standardFor the remainder of the concern remains that the technology born in joint development with Japan is "completely domestic technology developed by China". Because,As I reported in GIGAZINE the other day, Is a design drawing of the software that is the basis of IT products, and must never be known to the other party in order to raise the profit "Source code"This is because China is obliged to oblige overseas manufacturers for compulsory disclosure.

Even though China is a big market, various "China RiskAs it exists, it may be necessary to take precautions just in case to co-develop and pass on technology and know-how.