Request from Yahoo board regarding possibly blockbuster news from China (perhaps brian h or another chinese speaker could help):
Verify this NEWS!? please.
by: phoungle 3/26/00 9:33 pm
Msg: 32237 of 32253
Anyone speaks good chinese on this board? Please call CHINA TELE to verify the message posted early today by ????, I called, but they did understand me (I'm a Vietnam-Chinese). I was pissed off by myself. Please call and help me. Only $0.35 per minute if you dial
1010345-0118610-62303565. Now it's 10am in China, Monday.
Here is the message posted by some on this board today.
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I called China Telecom, one of G* owners in China, to ask the projection of G* sales in China. The answer is very possitive and interesting. The following is what I summarized.
China Telecom is deploying G* phones in about 380,000 villages to replace the 50 year-old telegraph systems. Those villages are located in either West or Central China where no any modern communication systems are available at all. Telegraph is still the only tool for the people there to have fast and "real-time" communication with the ones somewhere outside of their villages.
China Telecom believes they could deploy 2 G* phones in each village in average and the cost of each minute from G* is much lower than using telegraph. The average usage of each G* is targeted on 2 hours a month based on the current utilization of its existing telegraph system.
China Telecom admited that few individuals can afford to buy G* phones in China. Therefore, it targets on those village mainly, plus mining, forest, oil industry, coast guards and something else (sorry, I don't know how to translate them into English).
China Telecom is a government owned company. Therefore, it is supported by the Chinese Government to use G* to replace the existing 50 year-old telegraph system. The deployment is planned to be complete by end of 2001.
If you speak Chinese, please call China Telecom at 011-86-1062303565.
Good luck.
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Congratulations on the trip, Ibexx. Too bad Globalstar won't work that far north - no gateways and no satellite coverage at those lattitudes
Regards, Dave
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