China United Telecommunications Corp, the parent company of China Unicom has signed a memorandum of strategic partnership in Beijing with Microsoft for cooperation in the area of CDMA wireless data services. Mr. Wang Jianzhou, President of Unicom Group and Mr. Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft attended the signing ceremony.
China United Telecom President Wang Jianzhou shakes hands with Bill Gates in Beijing, Feb. 28, 2003.
According to the memorandum, the two companies will cooperate closely to provide CDMA 1X services through the launch of a CDMA 1X-based value-added business platform using Microsoft .NET technology and with Microsoft providing relevant services and support. Microsoft has committed to assist Unicom Group and content and application providers, in jointly developing more than 100 kinds of applications and services based on a CDMA 1X wireless data business platform. Microsoft and Unicom Group will promote the use and development of Windows-based intelligent mobile terminals (Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphone), and together cultivate an "enterprise application" market for the CDMA 1X digital business.
Unicom Group has created a proprietary, nationally unified CDMA "virtual private network" (VPN) based on its network, which has started operation in the capital cities of major Chinese provinces."
Posted to the site on 3rd March 2003
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