China's TCL to use Microsoft mobile software
May 15, 2002 9:24:00 PM ET
HONG KONG, May 16 (Reuters) - Software giant Microsoft Corp (MSFT) said on Thursday that fast-growing China-based TCL Mobile has signed a deal to use its mobile software standard in cellular phones and handheld computers.
TCL Mobile, which is 30 percent-owned by Hong Kong-listed TCL International Holdings Ltd , has been growing furiously, and sold 1.04 million mobile handsets in the first quarter of this year, compared with 114,000 a year earlier. China is the world's biggest mobile phone market.
TCL International said last week the firm hopes to be one of the world's five largest makers of TVs and mobile communications devices in five years. REUTERS
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