I’m all for countries developing their own intellectual property, but me-too efforts that start out several years behind the competition are not a good idea. That being said, China has a gigantic user base so doesn’t really need to export the technology. Still, claiming there are plans for a home grown stanard for mobile TV without giving any details (even a name) pretty much forces people to infer that the standard is just getting going. “The newspaper quoted a statement by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television as saying the home-grown standard ‘is very important for the growth of our indigenous industry and multimedia broadcasts for mobile devices.’”
There’s some pretty confused signals coming out of China as to what it proposes to do in terms of mobile TV. There has been announcements concerning a home-grown version of DMB, DVB-H, Rok TV and others.