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Paris, July 21, 2009 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU),
through its Chinese flagship company Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, and Datang
Mobile today announced that their consortium has been selected by China Mobile
for deployment of its phase III TD-SCDMA mobile networks in 11 provinces. With
this win, the consortium expands its market footprint and maintains its
leadership position in the TD-SCDMA market, achieving overall market presence
in 16 out of 31 provincial markets in China.
Building on their successful network roll out in previous phases,
Alcatel-Lucent and Datang Mobile will expand their TD-SCDMA footprints into 11
provinces namely Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Anhui,
Liaoning, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Guizhou. Notably, the consortium secured
prominent market positions in Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, the four
provinces with the highest gross domestic product (GDP) and network growth
potential in China.
“In order to improve customer satisfaction, Datang Mobile has made large
efforts around the TD-SCDMA technology and products both through continuing
innovation and development in this space as well as leveraging the live network
experience”, said Xie Yongbin, President of Datang Mobile. “We believe that
Datang Mobile and Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell will enhance their strategic
partnership and continue the win-win cooperation in the future development of
TD-SCDMA”.
“Joining hands with Datang Mobile, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell will support
China Mobile in providing its millions of subscribers with advanced 3G services
and applications”, said Olivia Qiu, President of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell
and of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in East Asia.
In December 2008, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell and Datang Mobile provided
their industry-leading TD-SCDMA solutions for 11 of the 28 cities covered by
China Mobile’s phase II TD-SCDMA network, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo,
Changchun, Hefei, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Yinchuan and Urumqi, all
provincial capitals with the exception of Ningbo. Since 2004, Alcatel-Lucent
Shanghai Bell and Datang Mobile have engaged in a strategic partnership to
develop TD-SCDMA solutions in China and have been working together to secure
commercial opportunities in China and abroad.
Alcatel-Lucent is one of China’s top three suppliers for 3G – being present
in all three technologies (CDMA EV-DO, TD-SCDMA, and WCDMA). At the end of
April, Alcatel-Lucent signed two
framework agreements valued at USD 1.7 billion with China Mobile and China
Telecom for the year of 2009 while Alcatel-Lucent is also supplying
China Unicom with 3G network solutions in 14 provinces.
About China Mobile
Officially established on April 20th, 2000, China Mobile Communications
Corporation (“China Mobile” for short) has a registered capital of 51.8 billion
RMB yuan and assets of over 700 billion RMB yuan. It fully holds the equity of
China Mobile (HK) Group Limited. China Mobile Limited, of which China Mobile
(HK) Group Limited is the major shareholder, set wholly-owned subsidiaries in
31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central
government) in China and went public in Hong Kong and New York Stock Exchanges.
Currently, in terms of its market value, China Mobile Limited is the largest
among all the overseas listed Chinese companies and among all the telecom
carriers in Asia.. Additional information can be found at  http://www.chinamobile.com./
About Datang Mobile
Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd（Datang Mobile）registered and
established in Beijing on February 8, 2002, is one of the core members of
Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group. Taking its excellent innovation
and long-term accumulation, Datang Mobile is dedicated to the research and
development of TD-SCDMA, a home grown international 3G standard. With the
operation principle of ‘joint development, virtual manufacture and entrusted
operation’, and on the basis of its self-own core intellectual property right
and the whole series products including infrastructure and terminal, Datang
Mobile is committed to providing the total solution for the customers in the
area of public and private communication networks. Datang Mobile has been
dedicated itself to becoming the leading company in the mobile communications
field in China and all over the world through steady operation and fast growth
by taking two resource advantages: technology innovation and industry capacity.
Datang Mobile consolidated the best resources in research and development of
mobile communications technology and the industrialization from China Academy
of Telecommunications Technology (CATT). For more, please refer to Datang
mobile website: http://www.datangmobile.cn/
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