‘Chinese market is not enough for us.’
Repeater suppliers, who have targeted Chinese market, begin finding another foreign market because demand of Domestic repeater market has been full since last year.
These suppliers are preparing for China Unicom’s second bid for repeater and also trying to secure the market share in new foreign market earnestly.
These suppliers’ movement is caused by bad situation of Chinese market due to most of the domestic companies related with repeater to enter into this market.
Other suppliers spurred by some suppliers’ hit in Chinese market lower their price for tender. China Unicom also gives a lower price using current environment. As a result, profitability of Chinese repeater market is going worse. Under these circumstances, repeater suppliers’ effort to find new market seems too late in some degree.
They regard market of Southeast Asia, such as India (Indian market has great potential demand next to Chinese one), Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. as second target for exporting.
JAS (CEO: Lee Jae Bong http://www.jasteletech.com) recently passed field test of BPL (Indian operator) and supplied their In-building repeater to BPL. Though this supply is not so big in quantity, JAS expect that it will be the foundation of future trade with BPL.
KNC (CEO: Lee Yong Seok http://www.knc.co.kr) also supplied CDMA- WLL repeater to Malaysia in the first half of 2002 and constructed demo-site. KNC expects that EBT (Taiwanese operator), which is selecting BTS supplier with launching CDMA2000 1x service next year, will also chose repeater supplier sooner or later. Hence, they started preliminary business with EBT.
Withus, Sourcetel and Youngwoo Telecom are also trying to export their products to India, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc.
Someone related to repeater section said, “Demand for repeater in southeast Asia except for China is not so much. However, number of operators with CDMA service is recently increasing and spread rate of Cellular phone is growing steadily. Market as large as Chinese market is expected to be built up in Southeast Asia.
Source: The Electronic Times, Aug. 7, 2002
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