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Article: Mainland China comes up with lucrative WiMAX procurement deals.
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- The Taiwan Economic News
- Article date:
- June 15, 2009
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Taipei, June 15, 2009 (CENS)--Mainland China will buy an estimated 100 billion yuan (US$14.9 billion at US$1:67 yuan) worth of WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) equipment to boost security in its 33 major cities, according to a senior official of the Taiwan government backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
B.S. Lin, director general of the institute's Information & Communications Research Laboratories, recently said the mainland's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) plans to make most of WiMAX technology to improve disaster rescue, relief aid and anti-terrorism capabilities in 33 major cities around ...