China Unicom is set to procure 100 per cent more CDMA mobile phones

China Unicom is set to procure 100 per cent more CDMA mobile phones, to take the figure from 3 million sets to 6 million in 2006.

This is in line with its move to increase its number of CDMA users to achieve a balance in the number of CMDA and GSM users and turn around its loss-making CDMA business. Although the company’s annual net profit increased by 9.7 per cent to RMB 4.93 billion in 2005, its CDMA business suffered a loss of RMB 200 million.