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To: foundation who wrote (20084)	3/8/2002 7:30:17 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196755

Datang looks for cash to develop its 3G standard FRIDAY MARCH 8 12:00AM SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST COPYRIGHT 2002 SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST LTD. Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group is seeking greater support to fund its efforts to develop the mainland's home-grown third generation (3G) mobile-telecommunications standard, according to sources. Datang has been encouraging the central and local government to financially support the TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous code division multiple access) system. TD-SCDMA is being developed jointly by Datang Group and Siemens to help bridge the gap between the present GSM and CDMA mobile-telecoms standards to 3G. Their efforts got a boost in 2000, when the International Telecommunication Union accepted TD-SCDMA as one of the three recognised standards for 3G mobile telecommunications along with Europe's WCDMA and America's CDMA2000. Since 1997, Datang has invested more than 400 million yuan (about HK$ 377.99 million), mainly from bank loans, into the development of the TD-SCDMA system. However, TD-SCDMA's development lags its rivals. Last year, Japan's NTT DoCoMo launched a 3G mobile-telecommunications system using WCDMA standard, while the first commercial CDMA2000 networks were launched in South Korea. By comparison, Datang Group is now in the final stages of bringing the TD -SCDMA system to the market. The company expects to run a full-systems test of the TD-SCDMA system in the second quarter of this year. Experts estimate that Datang probably needs more than twice what it has already invested to fund the research and development of the TD-SCDMA system until the end of next year. Datang owns the majority rights to the TD-SCDMA standard and has the right to license the technology to domestic enterprises at a low rate. wirelessweek.com

To: foundation who wrote (20084)	3/8/2002 9:41:29 AM
From: straight life	Respond to of 196755

"...As of the end of last year, 53 countries had adopted CDMA technology, and there were 144 million subscribers to the service. By comparison, the GSM platform was available in some 160 countries, including those providing both types of service, with 634 million users. Still, an increasing number of countries are adopting the CDMA technology. China, potentially the world's biggest market, has begun mobile service based on CDMA in 300 cities. According to Ovum, an international market research agency, the number of CDMA subscribers in China is estimated to reach 32 million next year, compared with 5 million in 2001..." Where do they dream up these wonderful numbers?