Yesterday, CDMA Development Group (CDG) released the latest report. As of the third quarter, the total number of CDMA users has exceeded 421.4 million, of which Asia-Pacific region accounted for 49% of users, far more than a 32% share in North America.
Data from the third quarter of 2006 to the third quarter of this year, the Asia-Pacific region the number of CDMA users to achieve 32% growth, which reached nearly half of global users. CDG said, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea, have conducted a CDMA network expansion and deployment of CDMA subscribers in Asia Pacific the main reason for rapid growth.
In October of this year, China Unicom officially launched in Macau 3G services based on CDMA technology. Earlier, China Unicom Macau has been nearly a year, 3G network construction and business development. As the China Unicom launched 3G services in Macau, the contents of billing by way of business portal users to browse and listen or try various types of business is free, only to confirm the contents of only one-time purchase of a business receives a fixed fee. In Hong Kong, PCCW acquired Hong Kong Telecom Hong Kong, the CDMA2000 license issued by the Telecommunications Authority, as Hong Kong's largest and most comprehensive telecom service provider, PCCW subsequently announced the deployment of fixed-line network will use CDMA2000, broadband Internet, Pay TV, media content and large-scale IT business services.