Unicom Guomai to enter digital trunking telecom
28/4/2003 15:00
Unicom Guomai Communications Co. Ltd., a subsidiary paging company of
United Telecommunications Corp. in Shanghai, has been granted approval from the
Ministry of Information Industry to build a digital trunking telecom network to
tap the local business radio market, today's Shanghai Morning Post
reported.
The company has united with US telecom giant Motorola Inc. for
the project and will introduce Motorola's iDEN technology as the standard for
the digital wireless trunking system.
Four-in-one iDEN technology allows
business users to take advantage of advanced wireless technologies with one
pocket-sized digital handset that combines a two-way digital radio, digital
wireless phone, alphanumeric messaging and data/fax capabilities using Internet
access technology.
Motorola has rolled out Walkie-Talkie handsets for
individual radio users in Shanghai and reported a positive market reaction, the
same report said.
Unicom Guomai's joint trunking telecom project started
this month.
This move into the trunking telecom market is due to the huge
market potential in Shanghai, according to Liu Keqiang, the company's general
manager.
Citing a survey the company has conducted, he said there are
more than 200,000 potential trunking telecom users in the city.
Capacity
of the first stage of Unicom Guomai's trunking telecom project is planned at
50,000, he said.
Market analysts said the trunking telecom business would
help Unicom Guomai, a paging service provider, to expand into the mobile telecom
sector.
That will go more smoothly if China's telecom authority unites
the licensing for trunking telecom and mobile telecom, they
added.
Currently, licenses for the two sectors are issued
separately.
Unicom Guomai is currently operating an analog trunking
telecom network in Shanghai using Motorola's SmartnetII+
technology.
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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