Nobody ever pressured anyone in HK to replace WCDMA with TD-SCDMA. Nobody ever hinted on anything either. Under the current political system, the Chinese government have no power to intervene on matters internal to HK. In any case, all Telcos in HK are privately held, & in some industries the trade dictate policy making. The HK government merely implements it.
Only last year, the HK government auctioned off the 5th 3G licence, and that was for cdma2000. The winner was PCCW, who already has a WCDMA licence via taking over Sunday in 2005.

Informative, insightful, and no China bashing - I like it. Thanks!

(BTW, the "k" as in "kilo" is a _lowercase_ "k" - the rest is just perfect)