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To: slacker711 who wrote (44950)	3/9/2005 8:42:38 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196498

Mobile users cross 5cr-mark (50 million) business-standard.com Press Trust of India / New Delhi March 09, 2005 The addition of mobile users continued its declining trend with only 16.59 lakh new subscribers added in February even as the mobile subscriber base touched 5.07 crore by the end of the month. Of the 16.59 lakh new users, CDMA-based mobile companies added 5.29 lakh users, and GSM players added 11.30 lakh new susbcribers. The mobile subscriber base was 4.9 crore in January with 17.66 lakh new subscribers added in the month while 19.12 lakh new mobile users had joined the list in December. The total subscriber base stood at 1.1 crore in the CDMA category as per the latest figures released by the Association of Unified Service Providers of India. In January, 4.96 lakh customers were added, the association said. GSM-based cellular subscriber base stood at 3.97 crore in February, according to figures released by the Cellular Operators Associaion of India. Bharti had a cellular subscriber figure of 1.06 crore in February - a market share of 26.79%. It had a subscriber base of 1.02 crore in January. Hutch added 2.15 lakh customers in February, and had a total customer base of 76.46 lakh. It had a market-share of 19.22% in February.

To: slacker711 who wrote (44950)	3/9/2005 9:51:56 AM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 196498

>Now both companies are hoping to take advantage of the recently slowing growth of xiaolingtong, which means "little smart", a limited-roaming wireless service from China Telecom and China Netcom that took off in 2003. After more than doubling to 32 million users in 2003, the service hit 50 million users by the middle of last year. But growth has slowed since, with the number of subscribers not expected to double again until the end of 2006."< ---------------------------------------------------------------- slacker, there was a report last week that Xialingtong fixed operators Telecom and Netcom are no longer seeing the original REI. The key was always gross excess switching capacity from the old monopoly network, which kept the average cost of a new line at about $100 (66 million subs to date). Now every new line requires a new port on the exchange, @ $180, wiping out XLT's cost advantages. So the gov't will probably squelch further development, not to mention taking back some of xlt's spectrum (1900-1920 MHz) which overlaps some designated for 3G.

To: slacker711 who wrote (44950)	3/11/2005 8:18:17 AM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 196498

China-- Low-price CDMA Mobile Phones to Be Available in April 2005-3-10 Low-price CDMA mobile phones will be available in the market of China in April at the earliest. And prices for color-screen CDMA mobile phones will be lower than CNY 1,000. [Chinese yuan renminbi = $123] "We are now in the active preparation, and low-price CDMA mobile phones under the brand of ZTE will be ready next month" said person close to ZTE Corporation in a telephone interview. The Shenzhen-based mobile phone maker won orders of 500,000 CDMA mobile phones from China Unicom, the country‘s second-largest mobile telecom operator. Several mobile phone manufacturers at home or abroad is said to have won orders from China Unicom. They will provide China Unicom with medium and low end CDMA mobile phones. The launch of low-price CDMA mobile phones is Unicom‘s efforts to meet the fast growing demand for low-end products, industry insiders commented. Source: c114.net tdscdma-forum.org