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Nortel Networks invests US$200 million in R&D in China

Nortel Networks plans to invest 200 million US dollars in research and development of information technology and telecommunications in China in the next three years.


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Nortel Networks plans to invest 200 million US dollars in research and development of information technology and telecommunications in China in the next three years.

A company source said it would also build a new campus covering 55,000 square meters in Chaoyang District of Beijing.

"China is extremely important to Nortel Networks, both as a market and a source for technology talent," said Frank Dunn, president and chief executive officer of Nortel Networks.

The first phase of the campus, which will cover 27,000 square meters, is expected to be completed by 2004.

The company's current research and development facilities in Beijing and Guangzhou will continue to play an important role along with the new campus in developing Internet protocol (IP)-based voice and multimedia services, third generation (3G) wireless services, next generation networking and other technologysolutions.

China Unicom, a leading telecommunications company in China, isalso building the CDMA2000 1X network, based on Nortel Networks solutions, in Chongqing Municipality, east China's Zhejiang and Shandong provinces and northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Nortel Networks has joined with Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd. in August to build a lab to develop the Chinesehomegrown TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous code division multiple access).


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