Siemens Aims at 3G in China
CHINA, Mar 14, 2003 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- "Popularity and reputation of brand name are very important for success in the mobile communications market," says president of Siemens Mobile and Information Industry Group. Siemens has become the sponsor of League A of China Football Association.
Siemens is a member of 3G standards WCDMA Coalition and the only foreign company in the coalition. Siemens has signed authorization agreement of CDMA2000 with Qualcomm.
"We will fully support research of TD-SCDMA and WCDMA technology of China," says the president, "Because we have enough investments and researchers."
When it comes to TD-SCDMA, the president says, "As the biggest wireless communications market of the world, China must have its own 3G communications standard. And Siemens will fully support TD-SCDMA financially."
In September 2002, chairman of Siemens once expressed in Shanghai that the company had decided investing again EU$ 50 million in TD-SCDMA owned by Datang Mobile Communications.
Now, Datang and Siemens are testing the TD-SCDMA networks in Chengdu and Chongqing, Sichuan Province.
Siemens expresses that it will not enter CDMA manufacturing now, "We will concentrate all energy and resources on GSM-GPRS-WCDMA and TD-SCDMA products for the time being."
Excepting 3G, Siemens also hopes to make profits in the mobile phone market. Because China is the biggest mobile phone market of the world, with more than 200 million mobile phone users.
Siemens is transforming from terminal manufacturer to the upstream and downstream of the mobile phone production chain, after integration of relating resources and reformation of distributing channels.
Siemens has made partnership with leading mobile phone vendors Zoomflight and China Digital that can directly purchase mobile phones from Siemens. And Siemens traditional distributing channels will be a logistics platform. The industry execs say Siemens's reform will make it more competitive in the market.
From Beijing Entertainment Information Daily, Page 5, Thursday, March 13, 2003
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