Chunghwa Telecom to announce CDMA procurement plan
news.cens.com
Taipei, June 21, 2000 (CENS)--Taiwan's Chunghwa
Telecom Co., Ltd. will make public its plan of purchasing
a code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phone
system for 1.6 million phone lines on Friday.
The state-run telecom will purchase the CDMA2000
system for third-generation mobile phones. It will spend
over NT$10 billion (US$322.58 million at US$1:NT$31)
on the project in the next five years.
The new system will have a telecom transmission speed
over 144kbps, to offer the most advanced service and
seize an early lead in the new telecom service in Taiwan.
The first shipment is scheduled to be delivered in July
next year with transmission speeds ranging from 64kbps
and 115kbps. Mass production has not begun yet, but
will require that the contract winner upgrade the products
to models over 144kbps per second.
The huge contract has attracted keen interest from
leading suppliers in the U.S., South Korea and Europe.
Bids for the supply contract will come from Lucent
Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics
Co., Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Goldstar,
Alcatel SA, and Ericsson Telefon AB L.M.
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I bet his story will be ignored by the financial press in favor of the Brazilian one. BTW, I think engineer is right, the Korean PCS system is 1800 Mhz CDMA. |
