Monday, December 04, 2000, updated at 13:47(GMT+8)
Sci-Edu
Production for 2.5-G Mobile Phone Got under Way
An agreement was signed by Eastern Communication Co. Ltd., China Integrated Circuit Design Center and Motorola in Beijing on December 1, for co-developing the 2.5-G GSM mobile phone. This signals that the production of the 2.5-G mobile phones was formally put underway.
The 2.5-G mobile phone, with a GPRS function, has been greatly enhanced in its function for data transmission as compared to the 2-G GSM mobile phone. Its transmission rate will be raised to 100k per second from 10k of a WAP mobile phone, which has greatly exceeded the wired online accessing speed.
An agreement was signed by Eastern Communication Co. Ltd., China Integrated Circuit Design Center and Motorola in Beijing on December 1, for co-developing the 2.5-G GSM mobile phone. This signals that the production of the 2.5-G mobile phones was formally put underway.