CommWorks, Starent Join Unicom Paradehmiyer

Communications Today, Nov 4, 2002

China Unicom's [CHU] migration of its CDMA network to 2.5G coverage has become the gift that keeps on giving for infrastructure vendors. CommWorks, a 3Com [COMS] subsidiary, and Tewksbury, Mass.-based startup Starent Networks are the latest companies to announce contracts covering Unicom's upgrade of its 2G CDMA network to a 2.5G CDMA2000 1X operation. CommWorks and Starent will provide packet data service nodes -- the point of entry for mobile devices into the wireless packet data network -- to work with the radio access network infrastructure other vendors are supplying. For more on China Unicom's CDMA2000 1X contract and other hot topics within the wireless sector, be sure to read the Nov. 6 edition of Wireless Data News. For subscription information, visit the "newsstand" at http://www.TelecomWeb.com.

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