China Telecom articles from May 2003

China Telecom archives from May 2003

China E-Government.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... China E-Government Type of E-Government Software Purchase Ratio of Overall Market Firewall 19.7% Office Software 19.4% Anti-Virus Software 18.9% ...

China's domestic chip output up 44% in the first three months. (Top News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003

China Mobile capital expenditure to reach RMB60 billion this year. (Top News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... China Mobile announced that its annual fixed capital investment will reach RMB60 billion ($7.1 billion) this year. The operator is changing itself from a high growth "mobile voice service operator" to become a "voice and data business...

China's 1Q telecom sector capex up 14%. (Top News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... China's spending on telecommunications infrastructure and equipment posted renewed double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2003, official figures show, reversing - at least for the moment - last year s steep decline. Fixed-asset investment,...

PCs sales strong in Asia Pacific. (Top News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Research firm IDC reports that PC shipments in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, increased 9.5 percent, year-on-year, in the year's first quarter. PC shipments in the first quarter totaled 6.3 million units. However, this number...

China to formulate digital TV standard this year. (Top News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... At a recent conference on China High Resolution TV, MII officials indicated that the China digital TV standard is to come out this year. According to reports, China has selected and tested three proposals for digital cable television standards...

Loss-making subsidiaries of Jitong to be closed or degraded to regional offices. (Top News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003

ZTE supplies optical equipment to China Netcom. (Fiber Optics).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003

China Mobile expands in fixed-line arena. (Wireless).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Dominant cellular carrier China Mobile (Hong Kong) has quietly built out a nationwide fixed-line backbone network while awaiting the granting of a full telecommunication license by the industry regulator. A fixed-line network would enable the...

Shanghai Mobile to offer mobile data services up to 10 million subscribers. (Wireless).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003

Hainan Unicom extends CDMA network to Spratley Islands. (Wireless).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Hainan Unicorn extended its CDMA mobile network to the Spratley Islands and realized signal transmission between the CDMA mobile base stations and the switch systems on the Mainland via satellite links. Shenzhen-listed ZTE, a leading telecom...

China Mobile to deliver free SARS information to its mobile subscribers via SMS. (Wireless).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003

TCL Mobile licenses e-SIM software as Part of Motorola's i.250 platform. (Wireless).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Israel-based e-SIM, a leading provider of MMI solutions for electronic products, announced that TCL Mobile Communication, a powerful, high-tech joint venture member of China's largest manufacturer of electronic devices--TCL Holdings Co., Ltd.,...

Qiao Xing Universal Telephone Inc. To market Wuxiangtong phones. (Wirless).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Qiao Xing Universal Telephone Inc., the second largest telephone manufacturer in China, announced the cooperation with the Beijing Branch of China Unicom (BBCU) to market its self-developed Wuxiangtong phones. BBCU intends to purchase up to...

Siemens Expands GSM mobile networks for China Mobile in Shanghai and Anhui. (Wireless).
May 1, 2003

VSATs in China. (Satellite).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... According to CCID Consulting, a Chinese government-backed IT research firm based in Beijing, by the end of 2002, China's 40 VSAT operators were operating a total of 37,800 VSATs, up 11.2% from 2001. One-way or broadcast sites enjoyed the...

China Telecom selects Gilat to provide large-scale satellite rural telephony network in Tibet. (Satellite).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been selected by the China Telecommunications Corp. to provide a large-scale, satellite-based rural telephony network in the Tibet autonomous region of China. China Telecom will make an initial purchase of a...

China's Zhejiang Telecom selects Portal software to support convergent services. (Software).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Portal Software Inc. announced that Zhejiang Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, the country's largest telecommunications provider, has selected Infranet, Portal's convergent billing platform. Infranet will support convergent data services...

UTStarcom's PAS subscribers in China top 10 million. (Company News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... UTStarcom Inc. announced a company milestone as the number of subscribers using its city-wide Personal Access System (PAS) in China tops 10 million. PAS is quickly becoming a force in China. Since its initial launch in January 1999, PAS has...

UTStarcom signs IP-based PAS expansion contract valued at $30 million with China Telecom. (Company News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... UTStarcom Inc., a leading global provider of wireless and wireline access and IP switching solutions, announced that it has signed an expansion contract with China Telecom valued at approximately $30 million to deploy its IP-based PAS (Personal...

UTStarcom wins first IP-DSLAM contract with China Netcom and secures additional deployments with China Telecom. (Company News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003

UTStarcom signs $20 million IP-based PAS expansion contract with Jiangsu China Telecom. (Company News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... UTStarcom Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with China Telecom Jiangsu Province valued at approximately $20 million to expand its IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) (iPAS) platform in the city of Suzhou. This expansion...

JiangXi Power Electric selects intergraph technology as enabling core of advanced AM/FM/GIS. (Company News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions, Shanghai Office announced that JiangXi Power Electric has purchased G/ Electric, Intergraph's next-generation AM! FM/GIS technology for electric utilities. JiangXi Power is headquartered in Nanchong...

China's PCCW Limited installs Netcool solutions as added service assurance for customers. (Company News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Micromuse Inc., the leading provider of service and business assurance software announced that PCCW has deployed the Netcool solution. By enabling the proactive consolidation and correlation of performance data, the Netcool solution helps...

Agere Systems provides new access chip solutions to China's Fiberhome for optical networking. (Company News).
May 1, 2003... Agere Systems has announced that Fiberhome Telecommunications Technologies, the No. 3 domestic optical network equipment supplier in China, will purchase Agere's MARS Lite access devices. Agere will provide the new MARS2G5 T LT as well as...

Texas Instruments expands presence in China's exploding DSL market. (Company News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Texas Instruments (TI), the number one chipset provider for China's DSL central office manufacturers, has recently increased its regional presence to support the explosive growth of broadband in China and Asia. TI has hired a marketing director...

Videoconferencing gains popularity in Shanghai. (Business).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Due to the outbreak of SARS in some cities in China, more companies are starting the practice of non-contact meetings. Shanghai Telecom's videoconference business experienced a sudden surge during the outbreak. The number of videoconferencing...

ITXC announces additional expansion in Asia Pacific. (Business).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... ITXC Corp., one of the world's leading international voice carriers, announced that ITXC has opened new sales offices and appointed two new regional sales directors in Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan, as well as a new regional sales director...

Egenera expands its reach in Asia Pacific. (Business).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Egenera Inc., a leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, announced that it has established an Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong to support its rapidly growing customer base in the region. All Company business in the Pacific...

Pacific Internet implements VoIP across regional offices. (Business).
May 1, 2003

Pulse introduces excelsus xDSL-over-POTS CPE splitter specifically for China subscribers. (Business).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Pulse, a Technitrol company, announced the availability of its Excelsus Z-BLOCKER CP-422TJ, a DSL splitter designed specifically for homes, small offices and multi-tenant units to work with telephone network configurations in China. The...

NWI to spend US$159 million on China digital platform. (Business).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... New World Infrastructure said it is spending about $150 million this year to develop a technology platform that will allow it to offer interactive broadcasting services in China. Managing Director Douglas Chan told a news briefing the new...