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To: Eric L who wrote (11595)	5/16/2001 12:22:01 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

re: CDMA & GPRS in China - China Unicom & China Mobile "China Unicom said in March it planned to spend US$8.45 billion in total on its CDMA network over three years." >> China Finally Awards CDMA Contracts UK Cellular News 16th May 2001 China Unicom has finally awarded its expected CDMA infrastructure contracts, worth in total US$1.46 billion. The suppliers will build a CDMA network with a capacity of 15.15 million subscribers, ready for commercial services by the end of this year. China Unicom did not specify the values of the individual contracts, but several companies have issued their own press releases which give a picture of the contracts awarded. None of the Chinese contract winners had replied to our request for contract information by the time we went to press. Supplier Value Regions Shanghai Bell ? ? Zhongxing Telecom ? ? Datang Telecom ? ? Huawei Technologies ? ? Eastern Comm. ? ? Jinpeng Group ? ? Hangzhou Motorola US$407 million Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Hebei, Jilin, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Gansu Guangdong Nortel US$275 million Shandong, Henan, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Hunan and Shaanxi provinces and Chongqing Nanjing Ericsson US$200 million Jiangsu, Anhui, Sichuan, Yunnan, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Henan provinces Qingdao Lucent US$420 million Anhui, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong, Shanghai, Shannxi and Zhejiang provinces No comment about Samsung which had been said to have won a US$500 million contract << -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Billions to be spent on GPRS in China UK Cellular News 16th May 2001 China Mobile has said that it plans to spend US$16.3 billion over the next three years upgrading its GSM network. The bulk of the investment will be used to upgrade the network to GPRS. "We expected to launch GPRS in the first quarter in Guangdong, but it was postponed due to technical reasons," Li Zhen Qun, vice chairman and COO of China Mobile told an investment meeting, adding "But in the second half of 2001, GPRS will be put into operation,". The company plans to spend US$5.5 billion this year and US$5.4 billion in each of the following two years. Most of the investment will be funded from internal resources and not debt or a share offering << - Eric -