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To: quidditch who wrote (40844)	9/14/1999 9:18:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

China Update WSJ> The military's joint venture, called Great Wall Telecom, has been running experimental mobile communications networks using the CDMA, or code-division multiple access, technology standard. The U.S.-developed CDMA standard is a distant second runner to European-developed GSM, or global system for mobile communications, the technological standard that dominates China's mobile communications market. Wu said Great Wall was established "to carry out a cooperative experiment in CDMA networks in four cities. Since the Chinese government issued regulations saying military companies cannot do business, the military can't do this type of business venture." "So, the old venture of Great Wall Co., according to state regulations, should be rescinded," he added. But Wu's wording left unclear the fate of the CDMA experiments being run by Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU) in Guangzhou, Motorola Inc. (MOT) in Beijing, Nortel Systems in Xian and Samsung Corp. (Q.SSG) in Shanghai. Companies had expected Great Wall's investments would be transferred to China's number two telecommunications company, China Unicom. But Wu denied this, saying "there were rumors and designs to transfer the GW network to Unicom. But this did not happen." Instead, he indicated that the military would take over the CDMA networks, to use them for their own purposes. "As to telecoms within the military itself, the state allows it to use CDMA to build its own internal communications system in the 800 Mhz frequencies," Wu said, without elaborating. -By Jason Dean and Owen Brown, 8610 6532-6652;