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To: qdog who wrote (9127)	3/9/1998 1:38:00 PM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Respond to of 152472

Chinese Telecoms Growth On Target 09-MAR-98 China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications said it expects the telephone user numbers to increase by 20 million to 103.5 million this year, in line with the Ministry's goal of achieving 9.7% telephone penetration. ÿÿÿÿÿÿ China has the world's second biggest telephone network, and the third largest population of mobile users. The mobile user population 8 million, and this year is expected to reach 13.23 million. ÿÿÿÿÿÿ Access to the Internet is still heavily controlled by Chinese authorities, but even so the Chinese Internet community increased 400% to 160,000 last year.

To: qdog who wrote (9127)	3/9/1998 1:39:00 PM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Respond to of 152472

Qualcomm Plays Catch-Up On Data Delivery By Jeremy Scott-Joynt 09-MAR-98 Qualcomm and AirTouch, a West Coast US operator, are launching trials of data transmission services over AirTouch's CDMAOne network. ÿÿÿÿÿÿ The trials are intended to test data-capable handsets for IS-95 networks, as well as examining the performance of data delivery systems using both circuit and packet-switched delivery methods. ÿÿÿÿÿÿ Qualcomm is the only IS95 vendor whose commercial range includes the capacity to carry data. Perhaps for this reason, no CDMAOne operator has implemented digital data capability at present, leaving the standard at a serious competitive disadvantage to GSM given the upsurge of interest - if not yet takeup - of wireless data services. ÿÿÿÿÿÿ Some networks are getting around the problem by overlaying Cellular Digital Packet Data networks, which has a wider footprint of suppliers, although this demands functionality beyond the core IS-95 specification. ÿÿÿÿÿÿ The tests are designed to hasten progress towards filling the gap, with the prospect for CDMAOne operators of leaping to 14.4kbps while GSM still languishes at 9.8kbps. ÿÿÿÿÿÿ <Picture: CI Report>Related Stories Stories Related by Keyword