Daily News 2006/03/23

Experts from SAGATORI providing free-of-charge consulting service at "Call Center & CRM Expo China 2006"

SAGATOR, a call center consulting company headquartered in H.K. will take a part in the Call Center & CRM Expo China 2006 held in Beijing International Convention Center from April 3rd to 5th.
To enhance the communications between the manufacturers, end users and experts, the sponsor prepared an "interactive communication area" of about 100 square meters in the center of the exhibition area.
（please see the schedule at: http://www.ctiforum.com/expo/2006/ccmc2006/ccmc020.htm）
The "interactive communication area" was divided into different sub-areas based on the themes and functions, such as "operation & management", "planning & construction" and "call center related consulting service" (free of charge).

ZTE and Alcatel Shanghai Bell won the bid for the IPTV project of Beijing Netcom

Beijing Netcom's IPTV project, which has caught much attention of the media and the public at the end of 2005, has been settled at last. ZTE and Alcatel Shanghai Bell won the bid. It is said that the two companies will provide IPTV with a capacity of over 50,000 lines to Beijing Netcom.
This information has been confirmed by ZTE and Alcatel Shanghai Bell. Both of them confirmed that they had got the letter of acceptance from Beijing Netcom, and will sign the cooperation contract in a few weeks.

Sales volume of IP equipment exceeding that of traditional digital exchange in 2005

According to the latest report from Dittberner, the volume of NGN IP terminal equipment being sold has overtaken that of traditional digital equipment in 2005. In the year, sales volume of the latter declined by30%, while that of IP telephone terminal equipment increased by 151%.
The report says that China and Russia have greatly reduced their investment on digital exchange and has turned to NGN techniques and IP telephone techniques. This is one of the reasons for the change of the situation.
The report also says that telecom operators in the world are replacing PSTN infrastructure with soft switch solutions that provides IP-based multi-media services and circuit-switched telephone service through single platform.
It drew a conclusion that the telecom operators are making efforts to form a user group in this regard, and this is why they begun to invest more in this field.