China Telecom plans a US$4 billion contract for CDMA expansion (China)China Telecom, world’s largest telecom operator in terms of subscribers, in process of taking over China Unicom ’s CDMA network, has issued tenders for a network expansion. The key aim of the contract is to increase coverage areas rather than boost the quality of service in areas already under CDMA coverage. he initial contracts are expected to be awarded within a few weeks. According to the industry sources, the contracts are expected to be worth around US$4 billion.
Based on a recent study from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology estimates 64million CDMA subscribers by 2012, whereas, China Telecom had originally expected a subscriber base of 100million by 2012. However, figures from the Mobile World database show that China Unicom ended Q1 ‘08 with just under 43 million CDMA subscribers.
