Domestic firms acquire 88% share of China Mobile 3G bid

Domestic telecommunications firms, including Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp, won an 88 percent share of China Mobile’s latest 3G network bid, which has a total value of more than 8.6 billion yuan (US$1.26 billion), a Beijing-based telecommunications research firm said yesterday.
The Chinese firms led China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) equipment market [...]

Top 5 seal deals with miners on coal stocks

China’s top five power generating groups have signed 2009 coal supply contracts with miners in Guizhou Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with prices up 4 percent on the year, or flat after tax effects, sources said yesterday.
The price increase is in line with deals signed earlier in Shandong and Henan provinces, said the sources, [...]

ASB gets carrier’s contract for 3G

Alcatel-Lucent announced yesterday that it has been selected by China Unicom to provide 3G network equipment and related services in 14 provinces, a signal of the telco’s faster pace to construct its 3G network.
Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, the company’s joint venture in China, will provide WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) equipment, including [...]

Price helps homegrown vendors beat foreign rivals in 3G market

Chinese telecommunication equipment makers, not foreign vendors, took the top positions in the domestic 3G market, an industry report said yesterday.
In the third generation mobile phone market, Chinese telecom makers, including ZTE Corp, Huawei Technologies and Datang Mobile, occupied 70 percent of the market based on sales by the end of last month, said CCID [...]

SMIC, Datang Holdings clinch 2-year cooperation agreement

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC)<981>, China’s largest chipmaker, and Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Holdings Co Ltd (Datang Holdings) clinched a two-year strategic cooperation agreement, sources reported.
Pursuant to the agreement, SMIC will provide its R&D equipment and staff to help Datang Holdings to develop advanced communication logic process technologies and an IP database. Meanwhile, Datang [...]

Slower economy set to cool power demand and output

Power demand and output in China will continue to fall this year because of slower economic growth, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission said yesterday.
Power stations will operate at reduced rates, the Beijing-based commission said in a statement posted on its Website. “Unsolved problems” in coal and power pricing will add to operational difficulties, it said.

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