BEIJING-Although no official announcement has been made yet, an official at Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications, the subsidiary of China Unicom entrusted with building a CDMA network, said 10 vendors out of 12 have been selected to supply equipment for the network.
The 10 successful bidders are Motorola Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks, L.M. Ericsson, Samsung Electronics, Shanghai Bell, Shenzhen Zhongxing Telecom, Jinpeng Group, Huawei Technologies and Datang Telecom.
Investment in the first construction phase of the network this year amounts to 20 billion yuan ($2.42 billion) to accommodate 13.3 million users.
