The rise of emerging market provides a steady flow of power for the booming growth of global CDMA industry. In the 2nd CDMA World Forum held in June 2010, China Telecom once again won "Global CDMA Operators Leader Award" awarded by CDG. Wang Xiaochu, Board Chairman of China Telecommunications Corporation, had the honor to get "Personal Achievements Award" and became the first personal representative of Chinese telecommunication operators who got this award.

In 2009, China Telecom firstly opened 3G commercial services in 122 large and medium-sized cities and quickly covered all the county-level cities of the whole nation in less than a year. Up to now, 3G CDMA network of China Telecom has covered all the cities above the county level and is accessible by over 20,000 villages and towns. It has become the largest-scale 3G CDMA network in the world and has the most extensive domestic coverage. In May 2009, Wang Xiaochu, Board Chairman of China Telecom announced that the total number of their mobile subscribers has increased to 70 million. China Telecom predicts at the same time that the figure will reach 100 million at the end of 2010.

At the same time, China Telecom's investment has also driven the rapid rise of CDMA terminal manufacturers. From 2008 to 2010, China Telecom has held a number of purchasing conferences on mobile phone terminals and network equipments to make greater efforts for the procurement of cell phone terminals. The latest statistics from China Telecom shows that number of CDMA Network terminal manufacturers has increased rapidly from the previous 50 to more than 160 and the number of terminals in sale jumped to 545 from the 221. The number of CDMA terminals sold broke 30 million through the whole year of 2009.

In addition to focusing on the rise of the volume, China Telecom also produces the best products and enhances the quality of CDMA terminals by strengthening custom-made business with major manufacturers, introducing star terminals or integrating the latest technology. In May 2010, China Telecom announced the partnership with RIM of Canada to launch China Telecom e surfing Blackberry Enterprises Wireless Business Solutions for users from government and enterprises, which is another major action since the end of last year after coming to the contracts about mobile phone Blackberry and services sales. In addition, during the World Expo of this year, China Telecom together with Qualcomm provides USA Pavilion with high-speed wireless modems of EV-DO Rev. B and high-performance "e surfing intercom" cell phone applying QChat technology, which enhances efficiency of the personnel in USA Pavilion. Corresponding to the achievements of China Telecom, CDMA equipment manufacturers of China have also risen rapidly. They are making full use of the advantages of technology and research and are grasping the opportunities and seizing the market by virtue of their strong innovation and manufacturing capability.

Chinese manufacturers have wonderful performance

Taking ZTE as an example, since the EV-DO cell phone and data card of ZTE accessed to the North American market and are sold in the United States and Canada, ZTE has great achievements in the field of CDMA continuously and gains good results in equipments, terminals and R & D. Public statistics show that the base station shipment of ZTE totaled up to 215,000 by the end of December of last year. Up to 2010, global CDMA market share of ZTE will reach 29.3 percent, ranking first in the world. While in the terminal area, the number of the sold CDMA terminals of ZTE closes to 10 million in 2009, of which sale of EV-DO terminal takes the lead in the global 3G market.

Another giant of Chinese telecommunication also performs well in the field of CDMA. Up to the first quarter of 2010??Huawei has deployed more than 120 CDMA networks in the world. In the 2nd CDMA World Forum, Huawei was awarded by CDG the highest award in CDMA technology innovation field --Network Technology Innovation Award due to its outstanding achievements. In terms of terminals, the head of terminal company of Huawei said that in 2009 the domestic shipment of Huawei CDMA phone was about 6 million and the cumulative shipment exceeded 10 million; in the global market, the cumulative shipment of Huawei CDMA mobile phones was also higher than 60 million.

Apart from the traditional equipment manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE, more and more Chinese enterprises dug gold in the field of CDMA. Taking terminal manufacturers as an example, on March 5 of this year, "CDMA2000Cell Phone Design and R&D Industry Alliance", which is involved in more than 100 enterprises, was established in Beijing. This non-profit alliance consists of China Telecom, mobile chip platform providers and mobile phone design companies of CDMA2000 and brand companies with independent R&D capability. The alliance includes the main bodies of CDMA like Qualcomm, Samsung, LG, ZTE and Huawei and also attracts more other Chinese enterprises such as BYD, K-touch, Hisense, Haier, Lenovo, Dopod and Datang Telecom. These enterprises contribute a lot to the growth of CDMA terminals.

China Telecom and other operators make commitments for long-term evolution of CDMA2000 technology. China Telecom will invest US$1.17 billion to expand and optimize its CDMA2000 network in 2011, including the continual deployment of 1X Enhancement mode used to increase network capacity and enhance performance and the network of EV-DO Rev. B. 

Smoothly evolve toward the future

Progress in the evolution of CDMA technology is more rapid. Based on the momentum of the current data card business and the operators' need on business upgrade, Huawei announced to put forward the world's first wireless modem of EV-DO Rev. B. The downlink rate of the wireless modem's peak is up to 9Mbps and the average rate keeps at around 8.9Mbps. From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Huawei together with China Telecom has launched pre-commercial network of EV-DO Rev. B in Beijing and Guangzhou successively and declared to deploy commercial network of EV-DO Rev. B for Pakistani operator PTCL. Zhao Ming, President of Huawei CDMA product line, described the deployment of commercial network of EV-DO Rev. B as an important milestone of CDMA industry.

At the same time, ZTE also has a breakthrough in the network deployment and technical R&D of EV-DO Rev. B.

In June 2009, ZTE announced that the first commercial experiment network of EV-DO Rev. B in the world was built in Morocco; In January 2010, ZTE together with Smart Telecom, a CDMA operator in Indonesia and Qualcomm announced the successful establishment and launch of the first commercial network of EV-DO Rev. B in the world. 

Both the two years of CDMA World Forums choose China as the host, which also witnessed the booming of CDMA industry in China. China Telecom has doubled the number of its mobile subscribers in just two years and is expected to become the world's largest CDMA operator before the end of 2010. China has now become one of the most important and the most potential markets for the development of CDMA technology and business.