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RCR Wireless News, December, 2000 by OMATSEYE, SAM
The great wall between China and the deployment of CDMA technology may finally fall. And soon. After a year-long soap opera with Qualcomm Inc. over proliferating the technology in the country, the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry signed a memorandum of understanding to allow the nation's second-largest wireless company, Unicom, to deploy CDMA service to the country's 10 million potential customers.
"I'm hopeful it'll be sooner, not later," said Qualcomm chief Irwin Jacobs. "Hopefully not too late into the year (2001), but we'll have to wait." Although the initial estimates call for 10 million lines to be deployed, the technology is expected to compete with GSM technology, with a year-end projection of 75 million subscribers, securing its...
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