While carrying out a TD test in eight cities across China, China Mobile (CHL) will soon initiate bidding for the first batch of TD mobile phones.

Chinese media reports that China Mobile plans to begin the first round of bidding for TD mobile phones in late December or early January of next year when it will purchase about 300,000-400,000 TD mobile phones which will be mainly used for testing and optimizing TD networks and testing the mobile phone performance of each TD manufacturer in preparation for next year's large scale outsourcing.

According to China Mobile's plan, the company will spend a total of about CNY3 billion to CNY4 billion on two million to three million TD mobile phones. The majority of the mobile phone orders will be delivered to China Mobile after April 2008.