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MarketWire-October 22, 2007 - China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc. (OTCBB: CVDT)

Jinan Yinquan Technology Co. Ltd, the wholly subsidiary of China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc., today announced that 70% of the VoIP project for Zhejiang Geely Group, a Hangzhou-China-based auto manufacturer, has been accomplished. The project agreement was signed by both parties on September 11, and Yinquan is helping Geely to build its own VoIP communication networks for free in-network communications.

Currently, the project is in smooth construction, and expected to be established at the end of this November.

After the project completed, the Company will introduce it as one of the most important successful cases to other enterprises, which will bring the Company both significant social and economic benefits.

About Zhejiang Geely Group Ltd.

Zhejiang Geely Group Ltd. is the only private car production enterprises in the top ten Chinese automotive industry. Headquartered in provincial capital Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province, it has four specialized production and manufacturing bases in complete auto production and power assemblies; three of which are in Zhejiang Province (Linhai, Ningbo, Luqiao), one in Shanghai. It currently has an annual output of 200,000 vehicles, 200,000 engines and 200,000 transmissions. Zhejiang Geely Group Ltd .now has nine major bases, three universities, nearly 400 4S shops and nearly 600 service stations. The company currently employees more than 8,000 people in China, with more than 200 selling service sites abroad. Its total assets are approximately 10.5 billion RMB.

More information can be found at www.geely.com. and MarketWire

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In a country where 100,000 new users sign for a particular VoIP service (Read Skype) everyday, it is not surprising to announce sidelining of traditional phone services from mainstream. Yes, I am talking about China, which according to ReportLinker report, has enjoyed tremendous VoIP growth recording 109.931 billion minutes upto September 2006. It is 11.8 percent growth year over year.

Although, the call duration of VoIP in China is equal in number to that of PSTN, however the growth VoIP call duration is higher than PSTN. VoIP today accounts 43.16 percent in the long-distance call duration.

The research firm has claimed that the share of VoIP in the long-distance call market will be equal to or even exceed the total long-distance call of PSTN and mobile (GSM and CDMA) in the following two or three years gradually.

The compound annual growth rate of VoIP equipment spending by Chinese businesses will amount to 48% in the next five years. They will spend nearly 4.2 billion Chinese yuan renminbi in 2009.

Meanwhile, China also is suffering from illegal VoIP calls, which have been growing 30% every year from 2003 to 2006. Last year, illegal international call volume was about 500 million minutes. Therefore, the China government needs to take a cautious approach towards VoIP.

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Microsoft and Chungwa have collaborated once again. It is for VoIP and IPTV. They are now putting their resources together to offer VoIP services for both small and midsize business enterprises in China and Taiwan, the two major IT hubs in the world.

As per the joint agreement, Taiwan-based Chungwa will exploit Microsoft’s highly reliable Microsoft Live Communications Server and MSN to build up VoIP services for the corporate sectors in the above two hubs.

According to PC World, both the companies will integrate each others software for the advanced telecom services. It includes Microsoft MSN VoIP with Chungwa’s public switched telephone network.

So far IPTV service concerned, they have not disclosed the launching date. Chungwa is developing IPTV service in the line with Microsoft TV, which is the major IPTV infrastructure of Microsoft.

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With In-Stat report candidly figures out nearly 12.96 million unlicensed virtual VoIP carries (VVCs) by 2011 in China, it is easily foreseeable how illegal VoIP mushrooming in the country.

The report further says nearly 13 million Chinese customers will be accessing illegal VoIP services in the next four years. The number of unlicensed VVCs was 1.23 million at the end of 2006. It would touch 12.96 by the end of 2011. Interestingly, the legal service provider will increase from 720,000 now to touch 9.53 million by 2011, the report says.

Recently, the Ministry of Information Industry has ruled that traditional service providers have the right to provide legal VoIP services. Hence, the VVCs are running their network illegally with modest phone number resources. They offer only outgoing calling service to the customers.

Speaking about the report, In-Stat analyst Kevin Li says,

However, due to intense competition among voice service providers, and VVCs’ lower price compared with traditional long-distance calling or prepaid [internet phone card] services, VVCs are having success.

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Shall I wrong to say, there is also a strong competition for free services? If it was not so, then Pingo would not have suddenly launched their free VoIP offer for the customers.

Pingo made an announced that they are offering free VoIP calls to China and Vietnam during the lunar New Year Festival season, which starts from February 18 and ends on March 4.

The free offer came barely a few days after Skypes announcement to provide a similar type of service for the Chinese speaking customers.

Operating on iBasis network, Pingo provides its VoIP services in almost 100 countries in the world. Its VoIP services are cheaper in comparison to other providers.

The 15-day free service is an effort to hit the Chinese market, which is one of the potential VoIP markets in the world.

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With Chinese government maintaining its tough stand on Skype services in the country, 3J Communications has adopted a new strategy to popularize Skype phones among the Chinese customers.

3J Communications, one of the largest Skype phone makers of the world has reportedly inked an exclusive TV, online and newspaper promotion agreement with US-based NTDTV, a Chinese language TV network to promote its 3J Skype phones.

3J Communications promotion campaign directly targets the Chinese-speaking audiences throughout the world. There are nearly 223 million Chinese-speaking viewers in the world including China. The deal with NTDTV provides 3J a better a way to hit these potential customers.

Al Abrams, Vice President of Corporate Communications for 3J agrees,

The largest numbers of Skype users worldwide are Chinese-speaking individuals. This agreement will make it possible for us to market and promote our innovative low-cost Skype phones directly to this huge TV, newspaper and online audience.

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Google has taken its Click-To-Call VoIP services to China and eight more international markets using VoIP, Inc.s network.

The click-to-call service enables web browsers to speak directly to the advertisers from their cell phone through Googles mobile search capability.

A Google spokesperson explains China is the eighth and largest international market where Google will exclusively use VoIPs network to connect calls.

In an interview with ceocast.com, Anthony J. Cataldo, CEO of VoIP, Inc. said,

The use of Google and Click to Call technology in mobile applications represents a logical way for consumers to access information and contact merchants at a time when they desire to shop for products and services. We are excited to work with the leader in search technology as it enters the next frontier in search technology.

Googles association with VoIP Inc., is not new. The US-based search engine company has been using VoIP Inc.,s network in America, England, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Spain, India, Australia and the Netherlands.

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When eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion last year, the market experts started saying that the auctioneer had overpaid for the acquisition. However, others maintained the auctioneer is sensible on its part. They predicted that Skype would be the best platform to hit Chinese market, which has supposedly billions of potential customers for eBay.

EBay did not gain anything in China through Skype. Incidentally, China is now blocking Skype. The government thinks that existence of Skype is a threat to the Chinese companies.

According to this source, eBay has decided to axe its website in China and replace it with a new site in collaboration with Tom Online. It is expected that any of the Chinese Internet Company would operate the new site. California-based eBay would hold 49 percent stake of the new site.

After USA, China is the second major online market in the world. However, eBay could not strength its position in China.

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Taipei, as we know Chinas center of politics, commerce, education, media and pop culture is on its way to become the major VoIP hub very soon.

After launching worlds largest Wi-Fi network in June this year, the capital city of Taipei is now moving towards the large-scale deployment of VoIP technology in the government offices and schools across the city.

All most all the city government offices, Taipei City Council and nearly 234 schools from here have replaced VoIP to traditional phones. It would be another significant development in China VoIP. By deploying VoIP systems, Taipei would save nearly $12.340 every month in phone bills from early next year.

Taipei attracted global attention when it introduced largest Wi-Fi network in the world in June this year. The Wi-Fi network covers 90 percent of the city enabling some 2.6 million people to access mobile services through 4,000 hotspots.

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Although Skype has registered nearly 23 million users in China, the popular VoIP service is now facing restriction in some areas, says Tom Online.

The expurgation on text messing services and security concerns on Skype services, has forced Tom Online not to provide Skype services in certain areas of the country.

Tom Online, the mobile internet company of China explains it is now unable to provide its call to landline service because of Chinas monopoly on Telecom service providers.

Tom explains,

In the past year, our development has been very smooth, the increase has been fast, especially in the past several seasons. Honestly, the increase in use is beyond our expectations.

In fact, Tom-Skype joint venture has been proved very successful in China. They are very close to sign up 25 million Skype users. However, the block to Skype service may obstacle the growth of Skype in the country.

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Despite expurgation on text messaging services and security concerns on Skype services, Tom Online-Skype joint venture is getting overwhelming response in China.

According to this source, Skype has been registering nearly 100,000 new users every day in China since last three months.

Tom-Skype is very close to 25 million mark in Chinese VoIP market. They have registered approximately 23.5 million users by the end of October, 2006. It is an increase of more than eight million from the end of July.

Chinese premier mobile internet company Tom Online that joined hands with Skype last year to provide VoIP services in the country has blocked political sensitive phrases in Chinese text messaging and SkypeOut services following the Chinese Telecoms regulations.

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Although, the Juniper Research forecasts overall fall in global spending on VoIP hardware and software after 2007 from $5.5 billion to $3 billion in 2010, however, a new study asserts the spending on VoIP in China will increase by three times during the same period.

According to research firm, In-Stat, Chinas yearly corporate spending on IP server-based PBX (Private Branch Exchange) will grow from $164.1 million in 2006 to $479.5 million in 2010. In other words, there is a steady growth in the PBX revenue in the Chinese market in the coming days.

Kevin Li, a research analyst at In-Stat comments that business users in China are seeing VoIP as a basic function in IP PBX products.

Li said,

Several solutions designed to cope with various risk scenarios are gradually alleviating potential customers concerns of reliability and security for carrying voice over an open and standard data network.

However, the report predicts the traditional PBX revenue in China will fall by a 31.8 percent CAGR through 2010.

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