Bruce, Found this among your links. It all over the map and the sleek phone (see link) looks pdqishly weird.
JMD, Welcome back. Was starting to think a Zenit got ya! Did Fry's clean up all their messy aisles and fix their nigrescent luminescence? I've heard esl tubes are cheap.
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Samsung to Increase CDMA Handset Exports
Exports of code division multiple access (CDMA) handsets by Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd (SEC) (www.samsungelectronics.com) are rising due mainly to the Korean company's marketing efforts.
SEC, the world's largest memory manufacturer, signed an agreement in July with IUSACELL, a Mexican cellular phone service provider, to export 30,000 units of CDMA handsets. SEC became the first Korean company to enter the South American market.
Samsung's CDMA Handset
SEC said it has already shipped an initial 2,000 units of SCH-210 handsets, the company's best selling model. The remaining 28,000 units will be delivered by the end of this year.
The company's entry into the Mexican market is attributed to Samsung's active and intensive marketing efforts.
"We launched a massive advertising campaign on TV as well as in newspapers and magazines in an effort to generate a rapid CDMA boom in Mexico," said Chung Jin Hee, an official at the company.
She said that the exports to Mexico are expected to provide a good opportunity to increase exports to other South American nations.
And most recently, Samsung made over US$20 million contracts to export CDMA wireless local loop (WLL) fixed phones to Vladikavkaz, Bryan and Vladivostok in Russia.
SEC said that the CDMA WLL fixed phones (model: SCW-F200) being exported to Russia are CDMA cellular bands (800MHz). The conventional phone provides voice service only, but the SCW-F200 offers the capability to handle short message service mail and text data.
The SCW-F200 can be used on a WLL system that wirelessly connects subscribers to a wired network base station. It also can access existing CDMA wireless networks, thereby offering the user the same functionality as a regular cellular phone.
Expansion in Russia
Russia and Eastern Europe plan to expand their WLL networks, which are used to access wired networks. Subscribers use mobile handsets to connect with WLL base stations at distances ranging from 2 to 20km. This network expansion is expected to add at least 10 million new subscriber lines over the next 5 years.
Lee Sang Won, managing director of Electronics Industry Association of Korea, said that the world market for WLL fixed phones is forecast to total 200 million subscribers by 2005. Samsung is likely to explore the east European CDMA markets actively, which are in the early stage of development.
SEC said CDMA handset exports are expected to reach US$1 billion this year, accounting for half of the company's communication equipment exports.
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