Washington ― Wireless companies struggling to recover from a year of record losses continue to turn to China's telecom market for new business. Motorola Inc. and its Semiconductor Products Sector (Austin, Texas) is the latest example. Motorola, which has operated a fab in Tianjin near Beijing for a decade, said last week that it will supply its 2.5G wireless platform to Eastern Communications Co. Ltd. (Eastcon; Hangzhou City, China), one of China's largest mobile-phone manufacturers. Motorola said Eastcon will use its i.250 GSM/GPRS platform to develop 2.5G wireless communications products for China' booming mobile-phone market, which by Chinese estimates could reach 320 million subscribers by 2004. Some chip set development will be handled at the Tianjin plant to give Eastcon some local content, said Ed Valdez, Motorola's director of wireless platform marketing.
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