Shanghai Reports Fast Growth in CDMA Phone Subscribers

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Shanghai Reports Fast Growth in CDMA Phone Subscribers

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China Unicom Limited (Shanghai) said Thursday it made an unspecified profit from its code division multiple access (CDMA) network with fast growth in the number of mobile phone subscribers in the first year of the network's commercial operation.

The telecommunications company said its CDMA mobile phone subscribers totaled 400,000 by the end of last month.

A spokesperson for the company said the market growth was much higher than the GSM market in the past five years.

The CDMA network covers Shanghai proper, providing better telecommunications service than GSM mobile phones.

Mobile phones with the CDMA technology, boast improved privacyand performance with upgraded anti-interference capability.

Nationwide, China Unicom had a total of 43.114 million cellularsubscribers by the end of 2002, including 38.623 million GSM cellular subscribers and 4.491 million CDMA cellular subscribers.

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