9 January 2007-Electcoms, the largest professional trunking network operator in Malaysia, has launched a network based on ZTE's GoTa (Global open Trunking architecture). The launch, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was attended by Dato' Seri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, Minister of Energy, Water & Communications, Malaysia,and Mr. Cheng Yonghua, China's ambassador to Malaysia.
The Electcoms GoTa network is being built in three phases. The Phase 1 network covering the Kuala Lumpur region has been completed, and is expected to reach a subscriber base of about 50,000 in two to three years. Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the network will expand the Phase 1 system to cover the whole of Malaysia.
Electcoms entered the Malaysian analogue trunking communications market in 1989 and now has 75% market share, with services principally covering the economically developed West Peninsula area of Malaysia. The company began offering digital trunking in 1999. Electcoms reviewed a wide range of vendors for the current project and selected ZTE's CDMA-based GoTa as a strategic technology for the future development of its trunking networks based on the system's feature-rich services and advanced digital technologies.
“The successful deployment of Phase 1 of this GoTa network takes the strategic partnership between ZTE and Electcoms to a new stage. ZTE will cooperate with Electcoms to drive the continuing growth of Malaysia's telecommunication business.” said Mr.Zheng Bang, chief representative of ZTE Malaysia.
GoTa, the world's first CDMA-based digital trunking system, was independently developed by ZTE, and was the first Chinese telecoms technology to be licensed to other global telecoms equipment vendors.
GoTa systems have been deployed in over 10 countries including Russia, Norway, Mongolia, Vietnam and Haiti. It is the only China-developed digital trunking system that has found a wide range of commercial applications in the global market. In China, ZTE has worked with China Tietong and China Satcom to build GoTa commercial networks in the cities of Shenyang and Changchun respectively, and to trial China's first city emergency response project in Weifang. In October 2005, China Satcom adopted the GoTa system to deliver dispatch services to the 10th National Games of China.
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