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To: engineer who wrote (15983)	10/5/1998 11:43:00 AM
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Engineer, all... The China business gets stranger and stranger. Can anyone comment on this SWAPTM or "syncronous code division multiple access, SCDMA"? Monday October 5, 10:35 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Cwill Telecommunications China Selects Cwill's Technology for National Wireless Local Loop Network AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- China Telcom, the telephone service provider for all of China, has granted Austin-based Cwill Telecommunications' wireless technology the first access license in the PCS frequency band to deploy its advanced wireless local loop communication systems throughout China. The license was officially awarded by the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) to Cwill's joint venture partner Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology, Ltd., Company, located in Beijing, China. Beijing Xinwei is Cwill's partner in China for the manufacture, sale, installation and service of its wireless products. According to an MII spokesperson, the license was awarded to help speed-up the countrywide development of improved wireless communications technology, and to expand the availability of reliable, affordable telephone service. ''In December 1997, Cwill became the first U.S.-based telecommunications company to receive an official Technology Certification from China's MII,'' said Wei Chen, Cwill Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. ''We plan to use this recognition of our advanced wireless technology as a spring-board into other developing countries that are interested in expanding their own internal telecommunications infrastructure.'' Cwill's patent-pending Synchronous Wireless Access Protocol System, SWAPTM is establishing a new international standard for the application of smart antenna-based wireless local loop. By combining its smart antenna expertise with synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (SCDMA) technology, time- division-duplex (TDD) scheme, and software radio architecture, Cwill has successfully created a wireless communications system with a larger call capacity that can transmit signals over distances up to four times greater than competing products. In addition, the Cwill system can easily interface with any existing central office switch, and can be installed and operated at a fraction of the cost of a traditional wireline or cellular telephone system. China's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has granted Cwill's technology exclusive rights to operate its SWAPTM wireless technology in the 1.8 GHz band spectrum. This means that other telecommunications companies that want to offer similar products in China will need to license Cwill's approved technology. ''Cwill's technology is clearly several years ahead of others in the industry,'' said Bryant Wilder, Cwill Vice President of Business Development. ''In China alone, that could translate to $60 million in sales over the next year, and we plan to expand our offerings to other parts of the globe through similar joint ventures and partnerships.'' Wilder added that today, some five billion people throughout the world are denied simple access to a telephone because of the high price of traditional wireline or cellular systems. ''Cwill has the technology to bridge the communication chasms of the world and to connect a new generation of global communicators,'' Wilder said. ''There is a growing demand for advanced wireless features, and we plan to remain at the forefront of that technology.'' Cwill is a global leader in wireless local loop technology and advanced wireless communications products. Based in Austin, Texas, Cwill is a privately held company that is changing the rules for the way the world hears wireless. SOURCE: Cwill Telecommunications