Despite making a push with a lot of handset promotions, the numbers for CDMA net adds in April for China Unicom were substantially down from a year ago (from 680k to 495k).  There were rumors of the lack of handsets, albeit the problem was mitigated with a big order or low-end CDMA mobile phones.  From a CDMA camp perspective, these results might not look so great - despite the fact that China Unicom faced stiff competition from China Mobile.  Just earlier this week, China Unicom had announced plans to upgrade its national CDMA network to 3G, and one has to wonder how soon this upgrade will come after these results.  Despite these results in China, the outlook looks much brighter for CDMA in countries such as Japan, Korea, India and Brazil.