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To: qorilla_watcher who wrote (99151)	5/16/2001 2:07:34 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 152472

>> What happpened to Samsung in the CDMA China contract awards? << They did win via their consortium with Shanghai Bell Alcatel Mobile Communications Systems Co. They did not bid stand alone but with Shanghia Bell as partner. Naturally the Chinese press releases named the Chinese companies like Shanghai Bell and not their foriegn partners. It is up to Samsung to blow its own horn and not expect the Xinhua news agency to do it for them. Interestingly the South China morning Post makes the same mistake. biz.scmp.com They list Shanghai Bell among the Sino-foreign joint ventures winning contracts and from what I think I know Shanghai Bell is partnered with Samsung. Then they say further down in the article; The absence of Samsung Electronics in the winners' list could deal a blow to the South Korean giant's ambition to carve out a significant share of the Chinese mobile equipment market. It came as a surprise to the market as late last month Samsung was reported to have won a US$500-million bite of the contract. BWDIK. It is simply not possible for the all knowing press to get it wrong, so I must be mistaken and will simply have to swallow my pride and admit my mistake. <g> - DPR

To: qorilla_watcher who wrote (99151)	5/16/2001 2:22:39 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 152472

Samsung Inks Deal With China's Unicom chosun.com 05/16(Wed)18:21 Samsung Electronics signed Tuesday a contract to supply CDMA mobile equipment worth US$200 million to China Unicom, China's sole CDMA service provider. The Samsung contract represented a portion of CDMA equipment supply contracts that China Unicom signed with other global CDMA giants. The contract value for the foreign CDMA firms includes US$400 million each for Lucent Technology and Motorola, US$275 million for Nortel Networks and US$200 million each for Samsung and Ericsson. China Unicom completed the selection of the CDMA service providers around the end of last month, but has postponed the official contract signing until now, sparking speculation that Beijing was holding up the signing as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Washington over the return of a US spy plane. (Tak Sang-hoon, if@chosun.com) ========== But how can this be? I just quoted the South China Morning Post, up thread, that Samsung was cut out , shafted. I guess it just goes to show you can't always believe what you read in the newspaper. - DPR