Fiber manufactures going out of mire

5/31/2006, According to the newest published 2005 Top 100 electronic manufactures list by MII, Fiber business increases by 31.2%, and cable business increases by 44%. Jiangsu Zhongtian also entered the top 10 profiter, ranked no. 6 with profit ratio 11.4%.
In year 2006, 3G and FTTH have lanunched in China, there is continuous need on fiber and cable product. If manufactures can invest more on R&D, so they can kick off traditional competition. State press reported.
In the last year, Leading fiber manufacture in China, YOFC's manufacturing capability has reached 15million KM fiber, acquiring 10% of market share around the world.
Top one cable manufacture, Hengtong succeeded in wining the bid of China Mobile and Shanghai Telecom. Especially, their cost control strategy begun to have good result.
Through cooperating with YOFC, Zhongtian's cable manufacturing capability increased from 1.4million KM to 1.85 million KM. They are also the No.1 special cable producer in China.
Futong group developed fiber pre-rod for FTTH application. Now they are one of the 2 companies responsible for fiber standard creating in ITU-T. 
Yongding group's revenue in 2005 increased to 4.746 billion RMB, a 226million increase than year 2004.

China mobile coveting Indian Reliance

5/30/2006, Just after the bid on Millicom, China mobile will then investe Reliance, one of the largest carrier in India. State press reported today.
Last October, China Mobile successfully accquire Hongkong based Huarenwanzhong, this week, they will announce the 5.3billion USD purchase on Millicom. Besides this, China mobile already has a purchasing list aiming at developing market all around the world.
Although China Mobile's overseas expansion is considered good for Chines companies, but still some critics point out that that is abuse of national treasure, because China Mobile is a state-hold company.

China Unicom secretly testing Wimax
5/30/3006,   "China Unicom will finish the WiMax testing within year. " Mr. Yaojin Liu, CTO of Shanghai Unicom, branch of China Unicom, said to state press.
China Unicom is now testing Wimax technology in Guangdong,Shanghai and Dalian. They aim the technology at wholesale customers, especially goverment and environment protection industry. Wimax will be a complementary technology to fiber access and 3G technology. Liu said.
The test is now based on 802.16e standard, several domestic and foreign companies provide the Wimax equipments.

France Telecom may consider Chinese 3G system

BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- France Telecom's research unit in Beijing said Friday it is assessing China's locally developed 3G standard, which its parent company may consider using in Europe at a later date.

China's Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) standard uses a different frequency spectrum for mobile-phone calls and data transfers than the other two 3G standards, W-CDMA and CDMA2000.

France Telecom R&D Beijing's public relations manager, Li Juan, said research center applied to join the TD-SCDMA Forum, a group that promotes technical exchanges on the Chinese standard, earlier this month.

That application was approved by the forum Thursday, said a spokeswoman at the TD-SCDMA group.

"There is a possibility we will consider using TD-SCDMA in Europe when the frequency spectrum for WCDMA in Europe runs out of capacity," said Li.

France Telecom's wireless division, Orange, holds the frequency spectrum in Europe that supports TD-SCDMA, she said.

China is testing TD-SCDMA networks in several cities nationwide. But there are still no commercial networks based on the standard, which China helped develop and also wants to export.

France Telecomis the first overseas telecommunications operator to join the forum. The forum's spokeswoman, Zhang Lulu, said that reflects growing foreign interest in TD-SCDMA.

France Telecom cooperates with China Telecom, China's largest fixed-line operator by number of subscribers, to jointly buy telecoms equipment. Orange is planning to open an office in Beijing in June that will help local telecoms-equipment makers tailor products for Orange.

 ZTE cellphone handles quality scandal in Sudan

5/29/2006, Because of quality problem, Sudan Telecom is considering claim on huge amount compensation to ZTE, the ambitous Chinese communication equipment manufacture. State press reported today.

It was said CEO of Sudan Telecom was very angry toward ZTE, and asked to stop all contract negotiating with ZTE now. But a spokesman of ZTE denied such report, although he admitted there really happened cellphone problem in Sudan. ZTE has good relationship with Sudan telecom, ZTE will handle this carefully. The spokesman said.  

China asking IEEE appoligize for WAPI

China asking IEEE appoligize for WAPI
5/28/2006,China Broadband wireless IP standard workgroup told media that they have appealed to ISO about the WAPI voting result. According to an anouncement to Xinhua News agency from this workgroup:" there are more than 49 items that IEEE violates basic rule of ISO, they have clear evidence on this, and this is rarely seen during the history of ISO. "
    WAPI and IEEE 802.11i， complementary to the de facto standard on safe problem, 30 country members of ISO made a vote on March 7. WAPI won 8 supporting votes, and IEEE 802.11i won 24 votes.
    In the announcement by China broadband wireless IP standard workgroup, they said:" IEEE continuously violateed basic rule of ISO, misleading many members make opponent vote. The voting is unfair, China cannot accept it."
 
 
Shanghai IPTV aiming 80K subscribers
5/27/2006, Mr. Huaiyu Li, CEO of Shanghai Media group subsidiary, Baishitong Inc. ,told local media that they would have 50K to 80K IPTV subscribers within the year. After september, they will advance the IPTV promotion in Shanghai area. Li said:"when subscribers exceeds 80K, we can say the operation enter a good state. As Now, Shanghai media group is still in the investing Phase. "

China Wimax Standard prepares for checking
5/27/2006, China WiMax standard edited by China communication standardizing association (CCSA) is now prepared for the final checking by MII. This 802.16d based standard is drafted by ZTE, Shanghai Bell, Huawei, MII communication research institute and many other related organizations. Spokeman from CCSA said that China enterprises now have more core patents than in 2G/3G area.

China Launch satalite broadband access also

5/25/2006, AT&T launched their satalite broadband access service yesterday, China Satalite communication company today made the same annoucement. Through a new gateway in Beiijing, China Satalite communication, the only satalite carrier in China, can now provide integrated services including voice, high speed internet and video to Norhteast, Beijing and Tianjing area, middle China area. By October this year, two new gateway will in use in Shanghai and Guangzhou, by then China satalite can provide services around the nation.

MRV Purchases Chinese transceiver manufacture HG Genune

5/24/2006, Markerter from HG Genune told us they were now belong to Luminent OIC, the wholely owned transceiver subsidery of MRV group. Noam Lotan, CEO of MRV, and Mr. Ma, Xinqiang, Chairman of HG group, signed the agreement yesterday in Wuhan.

According to the news release provided on HG group website, MRV will invest 45million USD to purchase all shares of HG genune hold by HG group, about 95.71%. Also HG gourp will invest 5million USD　to accquire 15% of Luminent OIC shares. MRV promised they would acitvily to make Luminent OIC public. If they cannot make the IPO on time, they will provide 45million USD to buy back the shares.

HG genune is founded in year 2002, its revenue reached 15million USD last year, with about 450K USD net income. HG genune has one of the best manufacting and R&D facilities in fiberoptics industry around Asia region. It now has nearly 800 employees. Its products include kinds of transceivers and OSAs, chips.

Chancellor Merkel helps Siemens win 1.4billion RMB contract

Chancellor Merkel helps Siemens win 1.4billion RMB contract
5/23/2006, During her first official visit to China, German Chancellor Angela Merkel help Siemens communication win multimillion dollar contract from China Mobile and China Unicom.

The contract from those 2 mobile carriers seems a good retort to the gossip that Siemens communication will be purchased by CHinese communication giant Huawei.

Merkel is accompanied by Economy Minister Michael Glos, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee and a delegation of 40 top managers from companies like Deutsche Bank, Allianz, SAP and Siemens.

Other important news today

PCCW cooperates with Murdoch on IPTV
The largest IPTV service provider in the world, PCCW in Hongkong today announced that they will cooperate with Meida Tycoon, Rupert Murdoch on IPTV service providing. PCCW introduced NowBroadband TV service from Septermber 2003. Now their subscribers have reached 500K. From septermber last year, Murdoch's company had provided 11 channels content to PCCW.

China Media think UTStarcom has more opporunities to be delisted

5/19/2006, UTStarcom today announced that they received an additional notice from Nasdaq. In the news release, UTStarcom said that Nasdaq listing qualification panel had agreed that they could continue their listing on Nasdaq national market. They hoped they could fill the 10-Q form on June 1st. I cannot tell their is bigger opporunities be delisted from the news release. I just donot understand why so many Chinese media get their conclusion. Maybe UTStarcom doesnot have a good PR department.

Today's other news, First, Huawei introduced their Tbps GPON equipment during Hongkong Broadband forum. It is interesting Huawei announce this GPON product in an Asia forum, not in Chicago next month.

A gossip, Mr. Wang,jianzou, CEO of CHina mobile is said to be the new minister of MII(Ministry of Information Industry ). Of Course he denied. In China, there are always so many gossips,canards, rumors.