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To: Eric L who wrote (24)	6/28/2000 12:02:00 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197238

Siemens and CATT to push TD-SCDMA as 3G alternative China may take its own path to 3G - DPR totaltele.com 27 June 2000 German electronics giant Siemens and the China Academy of Telecommunication Technology (CATT), a think-tank controlled by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), have developed the TD-SCDMA 3rd-generation mobile telephony standard. The new standard is a rival to UMTS and CDMA 2000 and offers comparable technology. As a mark of its confidence in TD-SCDMA, Siemens does not plan to sell UMTS equipment in China, a market where the company does 40% of its telecoms infrastructure business, according to Rudi Lamprecht, president of the information and communications mobile group of Siemens. Lamprecht added that a significant part of the company's $1 billion planned investment in China by 2002-2003 will go towards the joint development and manufacturing of TD-SCDMA equipment. China Unicom and China Mobile, state-owned mobile phone operators, have endorsed the new technology but have not made a firm commitment to buy.

To: Eric L who wrote (24)	6/28/2000 9:56:00 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 197238

Let's just give away a license to our friends, shall we? =========== INDONESIAN GOVT ASKED TO GRANT INDOSAT A LICENSE WITHOUT TENDER JAKARTA - State-owned telecommunication service provider PT Indosat deserves to have the license to operate GSM-1800 cellular phone system without bidding for it, a company official said. "There is no reason for the government not to extend the license to Indosat considering its contribution to the government," Garuda Sugardo, Indosat's operation director said. Extracted from asia-links.com ============ This kind of thing makes me very cynical, the PTT old boy network at work.