Andrew Wins Chinese CDMA Order

Antennas firm, Andrew has been named by China Telecom as an approved vendor for its CDMA wireless network. Andrew is providing base station antennas and HELIAX cable and accessories for a portion of the approximately 15,000 China Telecom CDMA network sites under construction through the remainder of this year.

Of the various vendors chosen, Andrew is the only foreign-based company selected to provide cable products and antennas.

AndrewÃ's reputation as a reliable and experienced vendor in China was instrumental in the first centralized bidding by China Telecom since its restructuring and recent acquisition of the wireless business of China Unicom, according to Ben Cardwell, vice president, Sales and Marketing, Asia Pacific, Andrew.

Following the recent telecommunications industry restructuring, China Telecom is one of ChinaÃ's three major operators and the worldÃ's largest wireline telecommunications and broadband services company, providing telecom and information services in 21 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, with approximately 210 million fixed-line, approximately 40 million wireless and approximately 43 million broadband subscribers. China Telecom commenced the completion of the CDMA wireless business acquisition and launched its mobile services operation on October 1, 2008.

Posted to the site on 3rd November 2008