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To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (1912)	6/14/2001 12:42:07 AM
From: D.B. Cooper	Respond to of 13815

Thursday June 14, 12:05 am Eastern Time China Unicom in CDMA roaming pacts with 9 intl firms (UPDATE: Adds details, background) HONG KONG, June 14 (Reuters) - China Unicom Horizon, the arm of state-run carrier China Unicom Group that is building a massive CDMA-standard mobile phone network, on Thursday signed international CDMA roaming agreements with nine carriers, an industry group said. ADVERTISEMENT China Unicom signed roaming deals with Canada's Bell Mobility, U.S. carrier Sprint PCS (NYSE:PCS - news)(NYSE:FON - news), Iusacell of Mexico, South Korea's KT Freetel and SK Telecom , as well as SK Telecom's Shinsegi unit. Unicom also signed roaming pacts with KDDI Corp of Japan, Telecom Corp of New Zealand , Hutchison Whampoa's Hong Kong unit, and Australia's Telstra Corp (Australia:TLS.AX - news). The KDDI tie-up was announced last week as part of a broader agreement between the number-two Japanese carrier and Unicom. Roaming agreements allow carriers' customers to use each others' networks when they travel. The agreements were signed during a CDMA industry conference in Hong Kong. China Unicom, parent of number-two mainland mobile carrier China Unicom Ltd , recently went forward with plans to build a network using the CDMA (code division multiple access) standard developed by San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc (NasdaqNM:QCOM - news). The first phase of the potentially 50 million-user current-generation technology network is set to be operational by early 2002 and will serve up to 15.15 million customers. CDMA competes with the GSM standard that predominates in Europe and China.