China Telecom Procures 100K Netbooks
Communications Weekly, 5/14/09
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) has revealed that over the span of one week it procured 100,000 netbooks from five vendors. 30,000 of the netbooks were from Lenovo (0992.HK), 20,000 each were from Asus, Founder (600601.SH), and BenQ, with Haier supplying the remaining 10,000.
The netbooks in this procurement will retail between RMB 2,000 and RMB 3,000 and will be sold by mobile phone distributor and retailer China PTAC Communications Services through the company's 3,000 sales channels nationwide; China Telecom's provincial-level subsidiaries will also set up sales counters in a portion of their service centers to assist with sales. China Telecom will introduce a subscription package for netbooks that will include a netbook with an internal EV-DO data card, wireless broadband access time and voice communications time. In addition, users who purchase the netbooks will be provided with an average subsidy of around RMB 1,000. The operator is requiring its suppliers to deliver half the 100,000 netbooks by the end of this month.
13 manufacturers took part in the bidding for this round of procurement. HP, Sony, Dell, and other manufacturers were ruled out for reasons of pricing.
Keywords: 0728.HK 0992.HK 600601.SH ASUS BenQ CHA China Telecom data card Dell Haier HP Lenovo netbook package pricing procurement retail Sony subsidy wireless wireless broadband CDMA2000 EV-DO distribution Founder Technology Group computer hardware
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