Chunghwa Telecom ventures into telematics biz.Taipei, June 9, 2009 (CENS CENS Censor CENS Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (UCLA NSF) CENS Censorship CENS Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Seclay ) -- Chunghwa Telecom Not to be confused with China Telecom. Chunghwa Telecom (Traditional Chinese: 中華電信; Hanyu Pinyin: Co., Ltd. (CHT CHT Chart CHT Center for Health Transformation (Washington, DC) CHT Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh region) CHT Certified Hypnotherapist CHT Cylinder Head Temperature CHT Certified Hand Therapist ) recently introduced a multi-functional telematics onboard unit (OBU OBU Oklahoma Baptist University OBU Ouachita Baptist University OBU Offshore Banking Unit OBU Onboard Unit OBU One Big Union OBU Old Boys Union OBU OSIS Baseline Upgrade OBU Outside Broadcast Unit OBU Overseas Business Unit OBU OSIS Baseline Group ) integrated with 3G mobile telecom, general packet radio service (GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. ) navigation, containing data on over two million shops and travel. Lee Yen-sung, vice president of the largest telecom company in Taiwan, said that CHT has tied up with some automakers on the island as well as system-integration partners in mainland China, hoping to rapidly progress in the telematics business. The new telematics OBU, the TLC-200, has been make available to some domestic sales channels, and Hotai Motor Co. Ltd., the agent of Toyota and Lexus in Taiwan, has ordered 40,000 units for its vehicles. Chunghwa Telecommunication Laboratories, the developer of the advanced telematics OBU, said that it would contract Hotai Motor's over 100 dealers around the island to sell the device. CHT may also contract local auto-electronic companies to supply the OBU, including possibly Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd., Hamg Shin Technology Corp., Hua-chuang Automobile Information Technical Center Co. Ltd. (HAITEC) etc. To prepare development in the rapidly rising automotive-electronics market, CHT set up its Telematics business division in 2008 by integrating all available resources in the telecom group. ((QL))(E) |
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