Samsung Electronics to provide Shanghai with CDMA hardware.SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 1997-- Latest Step in Globalizing Telecommunications Business Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. Co. (SEC) announced today that it has made inroads inroads Noun, pl make inroads into to start affecting or reducing: my gambling has made great inroads into my savings inroads npl to make inroads into [+ into the Chinese telecom markets as the official CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. hardware provider to Shanghai, China. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the contract, SEC will supply China Shanghai Changcheng Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. with a switching station able to handle 68,000 subscribers, 67 base stations and follow-up services. Installation of the station is scheduled to begin the first half of this year and to be fully operational by the year's end. According to a Samsung Electronics official, "The Chinese seek a new telecommunications standard to satisfy its 1.3 billion people. Samsung Electronics is pleased to supply CDMA hardware to Shanghai, the symbol of Chinese modernization efforts with China's largest market and potential for growth." Industry leaders, including Motorola, Lucent Technology, Northern Telecom and QualComm, bid on the Shanghai project. SEC's Shanghai contract opens a channel for future exports of CDMA handsets and mobile telecommunications systems. SEC has established a joint venture to market wireless local pager systems in Shanghai and has started supplying pagers and services to one million subscribers. Background The Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
The Chinese government has long-term plans to make Shanghai an international center of trade and finance on par with Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . The government's investments in Shanghai's telecommunications infrastructure indicates that its information and telecommunications businesses will undergo major growth. The number of cellular phone subscribers -- 38,000 users in 1996 -- is expected to increase by 600,000 this year. Samsung Electronics Co., the $18.8 billion flagship company of the $87 billion Samsung Group, develops, manufactures and markets telecommunications & information systems, semiconductors, audio and video products, household electronics goods, computers & peripheral products, display products and software tools. Additional information on Samsung Electronics is available at http://www.samsung.com. CONTACT: Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Russell Dubner/Jessica Page 212/704-4538/212/704-8222 rdubner@edelman.com/jpage@edelman.com or Cheil Communications Clara Kim, 201/229-6058 |
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