BEIJING-Experiments prove that CDMA service is available on the magnetic levitation (maglev) train between Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport and the center of the city’s new financial district.
The maglev train was put into experimental service 31 December last year. It remains a tourist attraction for now, but when it is put into regular commercial service at the end of the year, it will whisk airline passengers in eight minutes at speeds of up to 430 kilometers per hour to the center of Pudong. It is the only maglev line in service in the world, using equipment manufactured by Germany’s ThyssenKrupp and Siemens.
The Chinese-language People’s Telecom newspaper reports calls were successfully made on the train with the Samsung x199, the Putian Sanyo 550 and the Lucky Goldstar LG8080 handsets. A broadband CDMA 1x laptop network card was also tested.
