Datang Telecom displays latest products

Datang Telecom displays latest products

Datang Telecom Technology Co. Ltd. (DTT), a large-scale high-
tech enterprise from China, has sent an exhibition team to the
Techno Pre-Eminence -- Connectivity Indonesia 2002 with a mission
of grabbing a share of Indonesia's telecommunications market.

"By taking part in Techno Pre-Eminence -- Connectivity
Indonesia 2002, Datang Telecom will do its best to enter the
Indonesian market," said Wang Pei, the leader of the exhibition
team.

Techno Pre-Eminence -- Connectivity Indonesia 2002 is a four-
day event for an international exhibition and conference on
information and communication technology (ICT), which is to open
at the Jakarta Convention Center on Monday.

Wang, who is also the project manager of DTT's international
department, said that her company, in cooperation with its local
partner, PT Netwave Maju Abadi, aimed to provide advanced
equipment, technology and services for the construction of
Indonesia's telecommunications projects.

At this week's exhibition, she said, her company would focus
on the promotion of its optical transmission equipment.

The products to be exhibited were the TranSmartTM Series
Optical Transmission Equipment, Network Access Equipment, Private
Line Access Equipment and Ethernet Switch (desktop), she said.

The TranSmartTM Series Optical Transmission Equipment
consisted of SDH Optical Transmission System (STM-16 rack type)
and SDH Optical Transmission System (STM-1 desktop), while the
Network Access Equipment included LinkMasterA-100TM ADSL
Equipment (desktop). The Private Line Access Equipment would
include the SCAPCM PCM Desktop Equipment (desktop).

"Besides that, Datang Telecom will also introduce its
microwave equipment, switching systems and other products to
potential Indonesian buyers," Wang added.

Apart from microwave equipment, switching systems, DTT's main
products also include transmission equipment, network access
equipment, mobile communications systems, data communications
equipment, software and microelectronics.

DTT, which was established by scholars who graduated from U.S.
universities and is affiliated to an academy, offers products
with a competitive edge not only in terms of price but also in
quality, because its products are developed through research and
development.

DTT was founded through investment capital and mainly
initiated by the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
(CATT) from the Ministry of Information Industry. CATT, the
controlling shareholder of the company, was founded in 1957 and
is the largest professional research institution of
telecommunications technology with the strongest R&D capability
and widest R&D fields. It has been shouldering the task of
innovations and developments in the field of information and
communications technology.

The company began as the Xi'an Datang Telephone Corporation, a
joint venture between CATT, the l0th Research Institute of the
MPT and International Telephone and Teledata, Inc. (ITTI), a
company begun by a group of Chinese scholars in the United
States. Thus, DTT is a high-tech telecommunications company
formed through the strength of a national research institute,
coupled with the expertise of Chinese scholars studying abroad.

On Aug. 7, l998, DTT issued a total of l00 million A-share
stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange at 5.98 yuan per share, out
of which 75 million shares were sold to the public, l5 million to
funds, and l0 million to employees. The company held an opening
ceremony on Aug. 28, l998, and registered itself in Beijing's
Haidian New Technology Development and Trial Zone on Sept. 2l,
l998. One month later, the company issued public shares on the
Shanghai Stock Exchange.

DTT has thus far presented a series of state of the art and
world-level products in such fields as mobile communications
systems and equipment, large capacity SPC switches, optical
communications equipment, digital microwave equipment, full-
service access network equipment, telecommunications software and
systems integration, and integrated circuits.

It has also opened up new service fields like system
integrations and telecommunications VAS. During the following two
years since the company was listed on the stock exchange, the
company has obtained 41 network entry certificates from the
Ministry of Information Industry, nine from the Broadcasting and
Telecommunications Ministry and 13 from the military.

Facing the tide of whole world economic integration and the
challenge of China's entry into the World Trade Organization
(WTO), DTT seeks to expand its business, select and unite the
outstanding cooperation with other manufacturers, establish
strategic cooperation alliances, reduce operating costs,
strengthen its competition ability and resist market risks.

DTT, therefore, is inviting communications electronics
(software and hardware) suppliers, as well as producing and
processing manufacturers, for cooperation with mutual benefits.

DTT boasts its strength on its high concern for R&D. It uses
the majority of its investment capital as funding for key
projects and 10 percent of its revenues for R&D activities.
Employees engaged in R&D account for 4l percent of the company's
total staff.

-- Rikza Abdullah