Asia Express - Mobile Communications
Weekly TD-SCDMA Update June 30 - July 4
July 04, 2008
- China Mobile has revealed results of its second-round tender for around 215,000 TD-SCDMA terminals, including 200,000 mobile phones and 15,000 data cards, Sohu News reported. Chinese TD-SCDMA makers won 86% of the total tender, and the four leading winners were: ZTE, which was awarded the largest contract of 61,000 terminals, followed by Samsung and Guangzhou New Postcom, each was awarded 20,000 units, and then Amoi with 19,000. As for the tender for TD-SCDMA data cards, Datang was awarded the largest contract of 7,500 data cards, followed by CYIT's (Chongqing Chongyou Information Technology) 3,000, Guangzhou New Postcom's 2,500, and Potevio's 2,000.

- China Mobile reportedly has acquired mobile phone numbers beginning with 188 for its TD-CDMA network, Sina Tech News reported. The 188 prefix was originally released to China Netcom during the TD-SCDMA commercial trial. Currently, China Mobile has released mobile phone numbers starting with 157 in the eight cities where the company is conducting TD-SCDMA trials. Following China Mobile's takeover of TD-SCDMA networks in Baoding and Qingdao, the mobile phone numbers starting with 188 and 189, which had originally been assigned to China Netcom and China Telecom, were recalled by the government.