SHENZHEN, Aug 07, 2008 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- CHU | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- China Unicom lately said in a statement that it had clinched a deal with China Telecom to stop developing CDMA/GSM dual-mode cell phones.
Industry experts say that such move means China Unicom will stop operation of CDMA/GSM dual-mode telecom service and the dual-mode cell phone makers from now on will have to turn their heads to China Telecom.
Looking back to 2005, China Unicom was lack of CMDA terminals even four years after it kicked off its CDMA network.
By the end of that year, China Unicom came up with CDMA/GSM dual-mode high-end cell phones by making cooperation with a host of cell phone makers.
The CDMA/GSM dual-mode cell phone market saw a fever pitch in 2007 as an increasing number of cell phone makers flocked into the sector with their products, they included ZTE, Hisense, Konka, Amoi, Motorola, LG, Samsung, and so on.
