A Japanese company announced Thursday that it has developed a testing machine to simulate a mobile phone network that will help speed the final testing of China's home-grown 3G technology called TD-SCDMA.

The machine can be used to test TD-SCDMA terminals without the use of system equipment and will save time and money, said Toda Hiromichi with the Anritsu Corporation.

China is bracing to build a third generation (3G) mobile phone network that will be based on TD-SCDMA technology that will have to vie with differing technologies being developed in other countries.

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