China Telecom’s CDMA mobile phones scheduled to launch in October’08.(CHINA)

According to the sources from telecom equipment companies, China Telecom, the to-be-operator of CDMA network, is scheduled to launch the CDMA mobile phones October 2008.

China Telecom, which is encouraged to take over the CDMA network from China Unicom, informed its plan to purchase CDMA mobile phones to device makers earlier in June. As per the sources, it is now working out on new CDMA customizing standards in order to ensure an abundant supply at lower prices for its subscribers.

Citing earlier reports, China Telecom has set a target of increasing the number of its CDMA subscribers to 100 million in 2009.In order to achieve this number and to expand the CDMA business, China Telecom plans to set up four new departments, namely individual user division, mobile service division, wireless network optimizing center and terminal customizing unit.