News and Research on Telestone Technologies Corp. (TSTC)
Business Description
Telestone Technologies Corporation provides wireless communications coverage solutions in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and India. The company's wireless coverage solutions include research and development and application of wireless communications technology. In addition to its homegrown wireless communications equipment which includes repeaters, antennas and radio frequency peripherals, the company also offers project design, project management, installation, maintenance and other after-sales services which are required by its customers. These solutions the company provides to the telecommunications industry cover indoor and outdoor environments, including hotels, residential estates, office buildings, airports, exhibition centers, underground stations, highways and tunnels.
In addition, the company provides 3G applicable equipments, such as WCDMA, CDMA2000, and TD-SCDMA. Its TD-SCDMA repeater application solution could be applied to signal coverage of blind spots, such as signal blocked areas, tunnels, and temporary meeting rooms. Telestone Technologies was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.
In 2006, the company expanded its services to telecommunication technologies markets, including the 3D solution, which utilizes fiber technology in the radio frequency signal distribution to transmit high speed data signals, and the PHS system optimization solution, which transitioned to network optimization phase from network maintenance phase, to address four major issues of wireless network; including network coverage, network planning, network capacity and network disturbance.
Products & Services
The company designs and sells to its customers electronic equipment used to provide wireless communications coverage. Many of these types of equipment are highly specialized active microwave components designed to meet the needs of its customers, including repeaters, trunk amplifiers and tower-tip amplifiers for CDMA, GSM and 3G applications. The company also provides its customers with passive components, including filters, antennae and various types of wireless coverage accessories.
In addition to designing and selling its products, the company also provides systems integration services for its customers. The primary systems integration services provided to its customers are project design and engineering, specifically, the development and design of indoor (living quarters, hospital systems, and hotels) and outdoor (expressways, railways and blind areas) wireless signal complementary coverage solutions and its applied products. This includes the design of the required equipment, implementation, project quality evaluation as well as after-sale maintenance and optimization.
Customers
In 2006, the company's main customers were China Unicom, China Mobile and China Telecom. During 2006, Telestone began providing new network service to China Railcom as well as providing ODM (Original Development Manufacture) service to Nortel and Erickson. In addition, the company entered into business cooperation arrangements with ZTE and Huawei.
The company’s research and development technology is licensed to a third party production center, owned by Shijiazhuang Spectrum Digital Communication Co., Ltd., which is located near its in-house research and development center.
Competition
The company’s main domestic competitors are Guangdong Comba, Wuhan Hongxin and China GrenTech. Some international competitors are Powerwave Technologies and Andrew Corporation.
History
Telestone Technologies Corporation was founded in 1987.
