For China Telecom, CDMA is not the lifesaver
After China Telecom acquired the CDMA division of China Unicom, I believed that China Telecom will become a very dangerous rival of China Mobile. China Telecom has the largest fixed network in China taking up most broad-band market. The joining of CDMA will satisfy Telecom’s coverting on the mobile license and provide more choices to Telecom’s customers. Probably, it will stop or slow down the decrease of Telecom’s customers.
However, after I did some operations in Telecom’s counter, I found that Telecome still has a very long way to run, to catch up with the leading CMCC. CDMA from Unicom just provides the infrastructure on which business can be run, but staffs and processes are still obsolete, and will not prevent the decrease of customers.
As China Telecom is the oldest company among these three communication services providers, we should bear the slower change on their management. Although in the begining, CMCC is also come apart from China Telecom, it’s much easier for CMCC, a new organization to establish new mechanism and rules, to adopt new management from the western world. I believe the revolution in China Telecom will last very long time, and thus we have to expect less on Telcom than on CMCC. Anyway, now we have more choices.
