Datang Telecom Group (officially Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Group) is a Chinese

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group headquartered in

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. The group was founded in September 1998 by the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) and manufactures telecommunications equipment. It is best known for its leading role in developing the Chinese

TD-SCDMA The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a third generation mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed and maintained by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), UMTS is a component of the In ...

3G mobile telecommunications standard through its subsidiary DT Mobile (formerly known as Datang Mobile). Datang Telecom Group also provides military communications infrastructure to the

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History

Datang Telecom Group was the trading name of the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology since September 1998. The academy itself was founded in 1957. In 1998 a limited company

Datang Telecom Technology Datang Telecom Technology Co., Ltd., known as Datang Telecom or DTT, is a Chinese listed company based in Beijing, China. It is a subsidiary of state-owned "China Academy of Telecommunications Technology" (CATT), which had a trading name Datang T ...

was also incorporated and floated in the

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on 21 October 1998. In April 2007, Datang secured a 36.6% share of

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's first large-scale

network construction contracts."ZTE Takes Half Of China Mobile TD-SCDMA Contracts"
, 10 April 2007 (Pacific Epoch) In March 2012, Datang Telecom agreed to acquire three companies: TD-SCDMA chipmaker

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, handset design and manufacturing company Shanghai Uniscope Technologies, and its subsidiary Qidong Uniscope Electronics; Datang already held a 51 percent stake in Shanghai Uniscope.

Operations

Datang's business areas include high-capacity digital switching, optical networking, data communication, and digital microwave communication equipment and software and system integration services. However, revenue from these sectors is far outweighed by the company's spending on

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and

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, and in recent years the company has taken out a series of heavy loans from

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to fund this development."Datang Telecom Receives Another CNY20 Billion Line Of Credit"
, 20 July 2007 (China Tech News) In 2012, the

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released a report alleging connections between Datang and the

, in particular via Datang's Tenth Research Institute in

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Subsidiaries

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