Champion result for wireless pager
Champion Technology Holdings Limited, the telecommunications company which focuses on wireless solutions, is another recipient of the HKITCC Certificate of Merit in technological achievement.
Champion is also a Hong Kong pioneer in radio paging technology.
Shirley Ha, Champion's vice-president, corporate development, said: 'We are happy to be recognised and hope to continue at the forefront of the IT industry by developing such leading edge products as our Kantone pagers.' Ms Ha said the company entered the scheme because 'just as a land developer attends all the auctions, a technology company should be involved in awards promoting technology; it is also a good way to exchange ideas'.
Like other merit winners, Champion Technology believed it was recognised for its creative achievements and for developing and improving existing technology.
'We were the first company to invent the multi-lingual pager using home-grown technology and, because we are unique, we are completely vertically integrated. We have been given the award in recognition of this and to encourage growth'.
Champion Technology was founded in 1987 by chairman Paul Lok Kan-man, who has a lot of faith in his ideas and the future of radio paging technology.
The company began to design, develop and manufacture its paging technology and today is involved in every area of the paging network system.
The company not only manufactures its Kantone pager but also develops software to run the message networks, designs network systems, installs paging networks, and operates its own paging network.
The company boasts many firsts, including its multi-lingual pager (now available in five languages), four-line Chinese character display pager, eight-line English numeric display pager and this year the picture pager.
'With compression technology, we are no longer limited by space; the picture pager is capable of displaying pictures, graphs, company logos and more,' Ms Ha said.
Champion has launched a new product and developed new technology every year since 1993 - a key factor in its award. This continued advancement was not likely to stop, Mr Lok said.
'I think the pager has yet to realise its potential,' he said.
And Ms Ha expects demand for pagers to increase. 'People prefer data. The pager is the most economical and reliable mobile way to transmit data - pagers are the perfect complement to the cellular industry.' The company is working on a new generation of pagers that will integrate several data transfer products into one, which should result in a multi-function and more cost-effective product for the consumer.
'The technology is there and our future pagers will herald a new generation of data transfer,' Ms Ha said.
'We must continue to evolve. With the rapid introduction of other telecommunication technologies, we cannot rest on reputation - we must continue to introduce more useful and advanced pagers.
'The awards give us incentive to introduce new products,' she said.
