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Alcatel will open its 3G Reality Centre ( shown above ) in China to application developers in the Asia Pacific region, to jointly work on multimedia mobile medical applications to contribute to the current anti-SARS fight.

In the current severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) situation, Alcatel Shanghai Bell has made the development of multimedia mobile applications useful for SARS prevention and treatment a priority. Such applications can include mobile "tele-medicine" and remote temperature follow-up with discharged patients, which will be of great help in the anti-SARS campaign.

In addition, Alcatel has pledged research fund support and incubation for developers with strong proposals for relevant application development. This will be done through its Telecom Technology (T Tech) Fund - the first-ever investment vehicle exclusively dedicated to China-origin telecom technology with an initial investment of US 18 million dollars.

As the first comprehensive, live 2.5G/GPRS and 3G/UMTS environment in China, Alcatel Shanghai Bell's 3G Reality Centre here is the ideal place to develop, test and prototype such applications. Since its launch in June 2002, the Centre has partnered with important application content providers such as Intrinsic Technology and Korea's WiderThan.com, to provide mobile operators in China and the Asia Pacific region with the latest applications and services.

Andrew Young, President of Alcatel Shanghai Bell, said, "As a socially responsible corporate citizen and a company deeply rooted in China, we will play our part in fighting this disease. We will leverage our position as the leading Chinese telecom technology vendor as well as our parent company Alcatel's leadership of the world telecom infrastructure market to offer the latest telecommunications technologies to this effort, particularly in the mobile and multimedia sectors."

Alcatel has also donated US 200,000 dollars worth of communications equipment to anti-SARS hospitals in Beijing, for use by doctors, patients and their family members.

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