Unicom Puts 1,000 CDMA Cell Phones on Trial at APEC, Paper Says
By Eugene Tang
Shanghai, Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- China Unicom Ltd., which runs a cellular phone network in the country using Qualcomm Inc.'s technology, will lend 1,000 phones to be tested this week by delegates of the APEC meeting, Shanghai Daily said.
Delegates and officials of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will be able to use these phones on Qualcomm's code-division multiple-access technology, also called CDMA, which can transmit data seven times faster than conventional cellular phones that run on a competing European technology, the newspaper said.
Unicom, China's second-largest cellular phone operator, plans to expand its CDMA network by the end of this year, letting half a million customers in Shanghai use the phones for making ``visual phone calls,'' enjoying karaoke, downloading movies and watching television, the newspaper cited Unicom's senior technician, Chen Xu, as saying.
Shanghai this week is hosting APEC's annual meeting, with 21 member economies, including the U.S., Japan, China and South Korea, which together account for half the world's economic output.
(Shanghai Morning Post, 10-15, Page 2) or click {SNGI } for Web site.
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