China Unicom Buying Nokia Mobile Internet Equipment
Hong Kong, June 21 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said it signed contracts with China United Telecommunications Corp. to provide equipment enabling wireless data services over four cellular networks.
Nokia said it will provide China's No. 2 telecommunications company equipment to build wireless application protocol cellular networks in the city of Chongqing and in the provinces of Anhui, Hebei and Zhejiang. WAP phones enable interactive services such as booking tickets and trading stocks over the Internet.
Mobile phone equipment accounts for more than a fifth of Nokia's global sales.
Including Shanghai and Guangdong, Unicom will equip six networks with Nokia hardware and software for WAP phones. Nokia hopes to sell more WAP equipment to Unicom in the future, said Han Guo, marketing communications manager of Nokia in China.
The company has also sold equipment to China Mobile Communications Corp. in Fujian and Beijing, which started WAP services in May, said Guo.
China Unicom plans to introduce a mobile Internet service similar to iMode, provided by NTT DoCoMo Inc. in Japan, according to the China Daily newspaper web site.
Jun/21/2000 7:19 ET
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