Motorola
made its first live CDMA 1X data call successfully in China yesterday
in a
live demonstration at PT Wireless & Networks Comm China 2001 in
Beijing, demonstrating to Chinese telecom operators, the company's
leadership in CDMA technology.
Working with China Unicom, a major telecom operator in China, Motorola
demonstrated both multi-media wireless video streaming and high-speed
web browsing at the Motorola booth during PT Wireless. The demonstration
was conducted over a live CDMA 1X
trial system, built jointly by Motorola and China Unicom, Beijing
Branch. The Motorola V67handset was used for the demonstration. Motorola
is the first company in China that achieved the data call with its
own CDMA 1X system and handset.
The live demonstration showed that Motorola has expedited its pace
to promote future CDMA solutions in the China market. In addition
to the CDMA 1X trial system developed jointly with China Unicom, Beijing
Branch, Motorola recently demonstrated CDMA 2000 EV-DV 3G
technology in China for the first time, at the Shenzhen High-Tech
Fair held on October 12th -- 17th.
CDMA 1X technology is gaining popularity. To date, Motorola has been
awarded 10 commercial contracts worldwide to provide CDMA 1X solutions
in Japan, the United States, Brazil, Malaysia and the Ukraine.
CDMA 1X is backward compatible with IS95A/B and supports 144kb/s packet
data. In China, the live CDMA 1X demonstration reached a speed of
153.6kb/s, the maximum of its design speed, increasing the capacity
of the current CDMA IS95B system by 4 to 6 times for
data applications and by 1.4 to 1.6 times for voice services. This
increased speed creates opportunities for telecom operators to offer
more value-added applications, such as high-speed Internet access,
advertising and video conferencing. End-users can download
music and data directly from the Internet to portable wireless equipment
such as mobile phones, laptops, palm computers and personal digital
assistants (PDAs).
Motorola is China Unicom's largest supplier of CDMA infrastructure
and plays an important role in China's CDMA network deployment. In
May 2001, Motorola was awarded $407 million in CDMA contracts by China
Unicom and recently signed a $34.8 million contract for the
expansion of China Unicom's Hebei 800MHz CDMA network.
"We are very proud to be the first company in China that has
achieved CDMA 1X data call with its own end-to-end solutions. As a
global leader of CDMA solutions and the leading supplier of CDMA 1X
systems, Motorola is committed to supporting China's nationwide
CDMA 1X deployment," said Mr. Ruey Bin Kao, Motorola Vice President
and General Manager of the China Telecom Carrier Solutions Sector.
"CDMA technology enables telecom operators to realize smooth
migration to 1X without replacement of their current BTS," he
added. "This will help operators to minimize cost and protect
investment while allowing the powerful capabilities of CDMA 1X to
bring convenience along with new and exciting experiences to the end
user. It is through these types of solutions and services that will
make future devices smarter and our lives simpler."
With an equally impressive record in terminal products provision,
Motorola is the only foreign company in China to receive a license
to manufacture CDMA handsets in China. Motorola has recently signed
agreements with distributors across China to supply the
first batch of two million CDMA handsets for China Unicom.