China Mobile Invites Bid for TD-SCDMA/CMMB Handsets

Sina Tech, 7/07/08

Last week, China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) quietly began soliciting bids for 40,000 TD-SCDMA handsets embedded with CMMB technology. Reportedly ZTE (0763.HK; 000063.SZ), Samsung, Dopod, Yulong and Lenovo (0992.HK) are all providing testing models to China Mobile.

ZTE is providing its latest TD-SCDMA/CMMB handset, the U728, for testing. ZTE won orders for 61,000 TD-SCDMA handsets - over 30% of the 200,000 total - in China Mobile's recent second-round of bidding, leading to speculation that ZTE may also land the lion's share of contracts in this first round of CMMB-embedded TD-SCDMA handsets.

Editor' Note: For more background on this topic, please see "CMMB to Be Combined with TD-SCDMA", 6/27/08 issue.

Keywords: procurement ZTE U728 000063.SZ 0763.HK 0941.HK 0992.HK China Mobile CHL CMMB Dopod Lenovo Samsung TD-SCDMA television testing Yulong ZTE 3G bidding mobile phone mobile phone TV wireless

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