Not good news for those doing 3G: Two independent tweets coming out from @PhilipsShiu and @nielscn today reporting that 3G performance today, especially in Beijing, is poor. @PhilipsShiu reports that it’s impossible to log onto Google Talk via 3G, while @nielscn reports bad connections from the popular college hangout area, Wudaokou.

3G has had a pretty — beaten-up track record in China and around the world. Initial 3G-ish ads surfaced in 2000, right after the massive Nasdaq crash. Meanwhile, China’s adamant decision to come up with a PRC standard that would have went global — we’re talking about TD-SCDMA here — meant that it ended up as a flop. The telco mandarins eventually fed the flopped standard (if this makes any sense at all) to China Mobile, the nation’s biggest mobile telco.

China Unicom, in the meantime, was never known to be a network renowned for its quality when it comes to signals. Despite ads that would have brainwashed you that it was an affordable (even El Cheapo?) network that had good signals (信号好), most user experiences tell otherwise.

Oh and by the way — it’s good to be back on techblog86… we’ve switched back to the old, early 2008 “all blue” layout because we just plain love it. Good excuse?

今天，中國聯通的 3G 服務令人擔憂，有兩名推友 (Twitter 用戶) 發現，在北京一些地方，3G 難用，或者上不去一些站點，或者在某些區域用起來很費勁。