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

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telecommunications equipment group headquartered in Beijing,

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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 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 ...

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 China Mobile's first large-scale TD-SCDMA 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 TD-SCDMA research and product development, 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 United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report alleging connections between Datang and the

, in particular via Datang's Tenth Research Institute in Xi'an.

Subsidiaries

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