SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it has completed construction of a $1 million paging system in Shanghai, China, that can handle 1.2 million subscribers.
The company said it delivered the turnkey project to Shanghai Guomai Communications Co. Ltd. The project began in October.
China is the second largest paging market in the world, after the United States.
More than 25 million Chinese already use paging service, according to world reports, and Samsung said it expects paging networks will cover 20 percent of China’s 30 million citizens by the turn of the century.
The Chinese government’s plans for future telecommunications include building millions of new telephone lines to support an estimated 6 million new paging customers.
Both nationwide and regional paging licenses have been granted in recent years, and foreign companies have poured into China with business propositions. Motorola Inc. and NEC Corp. have strong footholds in the Chinese paging market.
Samsung said it also has a contract to build a paging network for the Yunnan Post & Telegraph Administration Bureau, covering the entire Yunnan Province.
Samsung said it will provide hardware valued at $25 million over a three-year period. The order includes 110 paging systems each capable of handling a million subscribers, and 500 base stations, audio mailboxes and transceivers.
