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Telecom
Outlook 2003
December
10, 2002
ZTE wins contract
to upgrade Unicom's CDMA network
HONG
KONG AND CHINA -- ZTE Corp. has recently won contracts
worth Yuan 1.57 billion to upgrade China Unicom's CDMA
network. ZTE will independently shoulder the CDMA network
construction in provinces and autonomous regions such
as Guangdong, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shanxi, Jiling, Hainan,
Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xizang,
Hubei, etc.
ZTE's
CDMA equipment is already deployed in Unicom's first
phase CDMA engineering. It's primary CDMA equipment
account for 7.5 percent market share and its secondary
CDMA equipment such as short message centers, wireless
intelligent networks and repeaters separately account
for 70 percent, 35 percent and 13 percent market share,
respectively. The company has already launched a cdma2000/1x
EV-DO system supporting a peak data rate of 2.4Mbps.
The 1x EV-DV R&D in compliance with 3G is on its
way.
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