CHINA selected two international technologies as the nation's high-speed mobile standards, placing equipment makers such as Ericsson AB closer to receiving contracts worth as much as US$20 billion.

The government will adopt wideband code division multiple access, or WCDMA, and CDMA2000 technologies for the nation's third-generation mobile-phone networks, Wang Lijian, a Beijing-based spokesman at the Ministry of Information Industry, said yesterday. China in January 2006 picked the domestically developed time division synchronous code division multiple access, or TD-SCDMA, standard as one of its 3G technologies.