China's Qiao Xing Universal Telephone has has won a bid for supplying China Telecom's Shenzhen Branch (Shenzhen Telecom) with Wireless Cityphones (Cityphone). The initial purchase order was for 20,000 units and the negotiation regarding a second order of 100,000 units has started. It is anticipated that this Cityphone business will bring in additional revenue of up to US$15 million within the next 12 months following the first shipment.
Like the PHS phone, the CDMA Wireless Cityphone is a mobile wireless communication terminal product based on the landline network mainly operated by China Telecom and China Netcom in China. It uses however the CDMA technology instead of the PHS one, therefore, the former is much more advanced in terms of technology.
Based on the one-way charge system, the airtime charge for using Cityphone is the same as that for the indoor telephone.
Mr. Wu Rui Lin, Chairman of XING said, ''It is encouraging news that our product is recognized by the telecommunication operators of Shenzhen, whose trend-setting inhabitants are reputed to embrace innovation and be constantly on the look out for new features in consumer products. In Shenzhen alone it is estimated there will be two million users. Can we imagine how enormous the potential could be when other cities start to follow Shenzhen's practice?"
''The credentials that we will build up in Shenzhen will facilitate our expansion to other major cities when they progressively adopt Cityphones.''"
Posted to the site on 2nd June 2005
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