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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (10)	6/27/2000 10:24:00 AM
From: llwk7051@aol.com	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197214

Siemens to invest $1.5 bln in Asia By Vivian Chu, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 3:03 AM ET Jun 27, 2000 NewsWatch Latest headlines HONG KONG (CBS.MW) - German electronics giant Siemens said it will invest $1.5 billion in Asia over the next three years, in its biggest-ever investment in the region. The investment will be plowed into marketing, research and development, and production facilities in mobile communications, said Rudi Lamprecht, president of Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group at a press conference in Beijing. Roughly $1 billion of the total investment will be spent in China, which Siemens believes will have Asia?s biggest market for mobile business solutions. Siemens (SMAWY: news, msgs) is already one of the biggest telecom players in China, where it derives 40 percent of its telecommunications infrastructure business. The company employs roughly 20,000 people and has capital investments close to $500 million, according to the South China Morning Post. The company also announced that it plans to roll out a new mobile phone technology in China called Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA), which it has jointly developed with the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT), a government-backed think tank. Trials of TD-SCDMA systems with Chinese mobile operators will start early next year, and commercial systems will be available at the end of 2001, the company said in a statement. Siemen?s investment in TD-SCDMA could be bad news for other telecom players in China such as Ericcson, Nokia and Qualcomm, since it could become the standard for third generation (3G) mobile phones. Siemens developed TD-SCDMA in secret with CATT, which is backed by China?s Ministry of Information Industry, reported the Financial Times on Tuesday. Once it becomes available, Siemens hopes that Chinese companies will favor a homegrown 3G standard over that of foreign players. TD-SCDMA is one of three main types of transmission technology for 3G mobile communications. The other two technologies--UMTS and CDMA 2000--are the next-generation versions of the current GSM and CDMA standards, respectively. Qualcomm (QCOM: news, msgs), which pioneered the CDMA technology that is widely used in the U.S., and Nokia (NOKBF: news, msgs) and Ericsson (ERICY: news, msgs), which use the GSM standard in Europe, are all competing to deploy their respective networks in China. China?s mobile penetration rate is only 5 percent out of a population of 1.2 billion. The mainland is set to be the biggest battleground for global telecom players in the next few years, as it has not yet committed to a single mobile standard. But Siemens has the key advantage of working with the powerful Ministry of Information Industry, which not only regulates China?s telecom and Internet sectors, but also is the ultimate parent of China Telecom (CHL: news, msgs) and China Unicom (CHU: news, msgs), the mainland?s biggest telecom firms. cbs.marketwatch.com

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (10)	6/27/2000 11:06:00 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 197214

Telstra Set to Roll Out World's Largest Cellular Network asia.biz.yahoo.com SYDNEY, June 27 Asia Pulse - Telstra Corp Ltd (ASX: TLS/M) is set to roll out the next stage of the world's largest cellular network as the analogue mobile phone network shuts shut down in most of country Australia this week. The old analogue network will cease to operate altogether in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania from midnight (AEST) on Friday. Analogue phones will also stop working in most of South Australia, all of Queensland south of Rockhampton and all of Western Australia south of Kalbarri. The closure is the second stage in the $A600 million ($US356.7 million) upgrade of Telstra's network, after 80 per cent of analogue coverage ceased on January 1 this year. The Northern Territory and the remaining areas in South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia will still have analogue coverage until October. By the end of the week the new CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network will cover almost one million square kilometres, making it the largest in the world. "At the end of this week, most of the CDMA rollout will have been completed," Max Jennings, Telstra general manager CDMA, told AAP. "It is pushing the one million square kilometre coverage mark which is probably the largest single cellular network in the world." Mr Jennings defended the new network, which the federal government and farmers criticised after the January shutdown as providing inferior coverage to analogue. He said Telstra had conducted extensive testing in all states to ensure coverage was adequate. "We have been working extremely hard to firstly rollout more network and secondedly to do some fine tuning of the areas that were causing concern," Mr Jenning said. "There's probably going to be a few folks who don't want the analogue to close but I think once they get onto the CDMA network and start using it, they will be fairly pleased with what they see." He said the new network now covered 350,000 extra Australians who did not have analogue coverage previously and an area 51 per cent larger than the analogue network. Mr Jennings said that would increase to 500,000 additional people who did not previously have analogue by September. The CDMA's geographic "footprint" will be almost double at 960,000 square kilometres. Telstra staff have been conducted drive tests throughout the country to determine how the network compared. Mr Jennings offered an example from a 4,900 km stretch from Port Douglas to Port Augusta in which Telstra staff found only 42 km did not have CDMA coverage. He said this compared to 780 km on the same stretch without analogue. Telstra's new CDMA network comprises 1,900 base stations with another 200 to be completed by August. At 1355 AEST, Telstra shares were four cents higher at $6.80. ASIA PULSE