Europe : Alcatel-Lucent’s Chinese flagship company, Alcatel Shanghai Bell, and Datang Mobile today announced that they have been tasked to deploy half of the TD-SCDMA expansion project China Netcom is launching in the coastal city of Qingdao, Shandong Province. This win builds on another TD-SCDMA contract the two companies recently secured with China Mobile and further strengths their technology-leading and market-leading positions in TD-SCDMA.  

Under the project, Alcatel Shanghai Bell and Datang will provide China Netcom with core and radio equipment to expand the TD-SCDMA network.   In addition, Alcatel Shanghai Bell will provide China Netcom with intelligent network and streaming media service platforms.  All macro node B and distributed node B (base station) equipment will be manufactured by Alcatel Shanghai Bell.  Upon completion of the project, China Netcom will be able to provide a broad suite of advanced 3G (third-generation) services to subscribers in central business districts, government, tourist locations and sites related to the 2008 Olympic Games.

“This successful bid is another powerful testimony to the strength of our strategic partnership with Datang in TD-SCDMA,” said Gerard Dega ( above ), President of Alcatel Shanghai Bell.  “With our  proven industrialization capability and global experience in 3G deployment, we will be able to support China Netcomin its effort to satisfy end-users with new, high-quality, next-generation mobile services.”

“China Netcom’s TD-SCDMA trial network expansion program in Qingdao will enable it to demonstrate the wide variety of value-added services 3G TD-SCDMA networks can deliver,” said Tang Ruan, President of Datang Mobile. “Alcatel Shanghai Bell and Datang enjoy a long-term strategic partnership in the area of TD-SCDMA. Following our recent win in China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA trial network expansion project, this success in Qingdao further demonstrates our leading technology and market positions in TD-SCDMA.”

TD-SCDMA,initially developed by Datang Mobile, is officially recognized as an international standard for third-generation (3G) mobile communications. Alcatel Shanghai Bell has made a long-term commitment to the development and promotion of TD-SCDMA within China and worldwide.  In 2004, Alcatel Shanghai Bell entered into a strategic partnership with Datang Mobile to further the development of TD-SCDMA.  In April 2007, Alcatel Shanghai Bell and Datang Mobile jointly announced their success in China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA trial network expansion in the cities of Shanghai and Guanghzou in China.

About TD-SCDMA
TD-SCDMA stands for time division synchronous code division multiple access. The technology was initially developed by Datang Mobile and has been officially recognized as an international standard for third-generation (3G) mobile communications.

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 the 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 homegrown international 3G standard. With the operating principle of ‘joint development, virtual manufacture and entrusted operation’, and on the basis of it’s 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.