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

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group headquartered in

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. It is best known for its leading role in developing the Chinese

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

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History

Datang Telecom Group was founded on September 21 1998 by the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) and manufactures telecommunications equipment. It has been 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 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 Leadcore Technology, 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

Chinese banks 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

* (100.0%) * Datang Telecom Technology (33.94%)

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