Thailand’s CAT Telecom plans to launch a three-month trial of a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO mobile service in ten provinces on 1 October. Chinese vendor Huawei is partnering CAT to roll out a 1x and EV-DO network in 51 of the country’s 76 provinces, under a THB7.2 billion (USD187 million) contract it won in January 2005.