[photopress:IT_1.jpg,full,alignright]China’s leading telephone operator, China Telecom, is accelerating the deployment of public Wi-Fi networks. According to a recent report by Shanghai Securities News. It plans to launch a new round in the bidding process to acquire wireless networking equipment in 21 Chinese provinces.
The telecom giant’s interest in Wi-Fi, which sets the stage for dual-mode cell phones and wireless VoIP, indicates that it may be poised to abandon Personal Handyphone System (PHS)-based services — an early, workable but less-than-felicitous system — according to industry insiders.
China’s telecom industry is currently undergoing a reshuffle, in which state-controlled wireless carrier, China Unicom’s CDMA cell phone network will likely be transferred to the landline incumbent, which is also state owned.
This will allow China Telecom to smoothly transfer its PHS users onto CDMA-based cellular networks, experts predict. None of this is certain. Mainly it is intelligent conjecture.
Source: Telecommunications Industry News
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