Wireless Federation

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, together with Hong Kong’s leading mobile operator, CSL Limited (“CSL”), today announced a significant milestone with the successful development of CSL’s Hong Kong network to the world’s fastest SDR-based HSPA+ commercial network, a major achievement in network power reduction. CSL 3G subscribers are now experiencing high-speed wireless services through the ZTE-deployed HSPA+ 3G network with a download rate of up to 21Mbps.

This project brings significant environmental benefits to both CSL and the Hong Kong community. The BBU+RRU modular hardware innovated and deployed by ZTE for this project offers highly efficient power consumption and natural heat elimination to effectively help reduce CO2 emissions. With the deployment of ZTE’s environmentally friendly equipment, the overall network power consumption of CSL’s network will be reduced by about 39% per year. This energy savings is equivalent to 7187 tons of CO2 emission, or emissions from 1,000 automobiles in 3 years over 60,000 km.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China Unicom has reportedly launched  commercial 3G trials in 44 more cities on 28 June, raising its coverage to 100 cities. The most recent cities to be covered by Unicom’s W-CDMA-based network are: Datong and Yangquan in Shanxi Province, Huzhou, Lishui, Jiaxing, Shaoxing and Quzhou in Zhejiang Province, Ma’anshan, Chaohu, Tongling and Chizhou in Anhui Province, Shangrao, Yichun, Ganzhou and Jiujiang in Jiangxi Pronvince, Weihai, Liaocheng, Rizhao, Laiwu, Heze, Zaozhuang and Linyi in Shandong Province, Xiangfan, Jingmen, Yichang, Jingzhou, Shiyan and Huanggang in Hubei Province, Mianyang, Leshan, Zigong and Meishan in Sichuan Province, Xianyang, Yulin, Baoji, Weinan, Yan’an, Ankang, Tongchuan, Hanzhong and Shangluo in Shaanxi Province, and Changji in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia is all set to launch the Chinese Ovi Store, the Nokia’s cutomised application store announced at May end.
The Store is, at present, available in five languages (English, Russian, Spanish, Italian and German), Nokia Ovi Store should be ready for Chinese mobile subscribers before 2009-end, enabling them to download applications directly on their phones.
The Chinese Ovi Store is anticipated to be a huge success as China has nearly 180 million Nokia handset users.

In another development Nokia has also announced that it will launch the first TD-SCDMA smartphone in China by 2009-end. The handset is expected to be a high-end Symbian S60 model and it will go on sale through China Mobile.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China Mobile, China’s largest mobile operator, and the Taiwanese mobile operator, Far EasTone will soon ink a telecom service cooperation, a FET source revealed.
The cooperation will be in the fields of value-added telecom services and joint purchases of mobile phones, mobile Internet data cards, netbooks and other related products.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: TD-SCDMA subscribers in China will reach the 50 million mark within three years, Su Jinsheng, chief engineer at China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) reportedly said in a conference. The TD-SCDMA network coverage in China will be expanded to 238 cities by the end of 2009, according to the plan of China Mobile.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: India has reportedly banned Chinese companies from participating in the process to buy, or form a joint venture to run, three units of state-run telecom equipment maker ITI Ltd. “Participation of Chinese firms in sensitive sectors such as telecom is subject to clearance from the home ministry,” according to an official.

“Acquisition of ITI’s plants will require security clearance and the home ministry is opposed to participation from Chinese players here,” the official said, according to the report. China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and Franco-American Alcatel-Lucent - both of which already have tie-ups with ITI - are the only companies to have shown interest in buying the three plants so far, the report added.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Chinese vendor ZTE has grabbed GSM/UMTS network contract from Indonesian mobile operator PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel). The financial details are not yet revealed.

Telkomsel intends to provide 3G high speed data services in 147 cities by 2013. The deal covers the supply of 2G BSS and 3G UTRAN equipment and will be supported by technical services provided by ZTE Indonesia, while ZTE Indonesia will offer systems upgrade, on-site technical support and repair and maintenance services.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China Unicom has inked a strategic partnership with the  Henan provincial government to invest RMB 40 billion in the province in the next five years.
under the terms of agreement, the investment will be made to improve the operator’s 3G network and fixed-line broadband transmission infrastructure, said Chairman Chang Xiaobing.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: LG is entering the Chinese mobile market with two new handsets, namely LG KT878 and LG KV920, offered by China Mobile and China Telecom respectively.
KT878 is a TD-SCDMA smartphone that operates on Windows Mobile 6.1 and features a 3 inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP camera, Bluetooth, music player, FM radio and microSD card support.
The second phone, LG KV920, is a CDMA2000 handset and features two WQVGA displays, a QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, music player and a 3MP camera.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China Mobile has rejected its plans to invest in Indian telecom market.

It denied a report that the company is in talks with Reliance Communications Ltd. about a strategic partnership.

“Currently, China Mobile has no plans to invest in the Indian telecom market,” the company’s spokeswoman Rainie Lei, reporedly said. “I have seen the news report in India and checked. There is no deal,” she said.