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To: John Biddle who wrote (32607)	2/18/2003 10:22:27 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) of 196996

Officials deny PHS coming to Shanghai english.eastday.com Officials with Shanghai Telecommunications Co., the main local landline phone service provider, said yesterday that the company will not introduce the personal handy-phone system (PHS) commercially in Shanghai. PHS is a wireless system providing mobile telecommunications within a relatively small area. The remarks were in response to the recent assumption that the Shanghai branch of China Telecom will provide PHS service in the local telecom market, as its branches are doing in other provinces, such as Guangdong and Jiangsu. The assumption was fueled by a recent media report that PHS phones were listed on the auction website www.eachnet.com. Shanghai Telecom officials said the phones on auction could be phones used by individual company employees. The company has been operating the system on a trial basis for its employees as a research and development project, but does not plan to offer the service to the public, the officials said. That would go against national policy, they said. The Ministry of Information Industry has ruled that PHS, also called "Xiaolintong" service, can be operated as an extension of landline phone service in small and medium-sized Chinese cities. Large cities, such as Shanghai and Beijing, are excluded from plans to develop the service. PHS phones are inferior to mobile handsets when it comes to short messaging and Internet access, the officials noted. They also serve relatively small areas. A PHS transit station in Shanghai covers 200 meters in every direction, while a Shanghai Unicom station on the CDMA network with 2.5-generation technology serves users some 50 kilometers away.

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