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Asia
Pacific Watch
October
30, 2002
Unicom awards Nortel $280 million cdma2000/1X contract
CHINA
-- Guangdong Nortel Telecommunications Equipment Ltd,
Nortel's flagship manufacturing joint venture company
in the People's Republic of China, has signed a series
of contracts collectively estimated at approximately
$280 million to supply China Unicom with cdma2000/1X
wireless network infrastructure equipment.
Nortel's
Univity cdma2000/1X equipment will be used to expand
China Unicom's existing CDMA network capacity in the
provinces of Zhejiang, Shandong, Heilongjiang, Henan
and Jiangxi, and in the Chongqing municipality. These
expansions are expected to be complete within one year.
Univity solutions will help Unicom to improve spectrum
efficiency and reduce costs, and position the carrier
to migrate to an all-IP packetised network. The contracts
were announced at a ceremonial signing in New York City
between Pascal Debon, president, Wireless Networks,
Nortel Networks, and Yang Xianzu, chairman, China Unicom.
The signing was witnessed by Donald Evans, US Secretary
of Commerce and Zeng Peiyan, chairman, China's State
Development Planning Commission.
Nortel
recently outlined its new wireless data networks strategy
and a new wireless brand "Univity." Based
on packetised voice, all-IP networking and more spectrally
efficient access technologies, this strategy aims to
address the industry's changing business needs for migration
to next-generation technologies and reduce cost of transmitting
network traffic by as much as ten-fold.
Debon
said: "We are honoured to be selected by China
Unicom for these significant projects and appreciative
of the instrumental role the US government has played
in promotion of CDMA technology in China. We continue
to work closely with China Unicom and other global service
providers to deploy wireless data networks that can
help position them to drive reduced operating costs,
protect capital investments and drive profits from growing
demand for advanced communication services. We are proud
of the market share gains we are making in China and
look forward to sharing in China Unicom's continued
success in this important market."
Contact:
Nortel Networks
Web: www.nortelnetworks.com
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