China Unicom has agreed to buy back its stake from SK Telecom for HK$10 billion (US$1.3 billion) after SK offered to cease a three-year alliance.
The country’s second-largest mobile phone carrier said it will repurchase the 3.79-percent stake held by SK Telecom at HK$11.105 per share, 1.4 percent lower than Unicom’s last close in Hong Kong [...]
Apple’s iPhone is scheduled to debut in China’s mainland, the world’s biggest mobile phone market, in three weeks in a partnership with China Unicom, the telecommunications carrier said yesterday.
The iPhone’s official entry has been keenly anticipated and expected to increase competition in the smart phone market with rivals such as Nokia and Dopod, said Wu [...]
China Telecom will give its users free incoming call services starting next month, making the company the first carrier to adopt a long-awaited one-way charge system for all customers.
The move by the country’s third-largest mobile carrier, announced yesterday, has been expected by phone users for the past decade and received new impetus earlier this year [...]
China Mobile, the world’s biggest telecom company by market value, has started work on listing its shares on the domestic market, the Shanghai Securities News reported Saturday.
Chairman and CEO Wang Jianzhou said Friday on the sidelines of the 2009 Summer Davos in China’s northeastern Dalian city that the company had launched work for Initial Public [...]
China Unicom’s Shanghai branch and Shanghai Daily are jointly developing 3G applications and an English-language mobile Website.
The cooperation includes a news service on mobile phones with daily headlines in English, a World Expo 2010-theme mobile application and a Unicom English wap portal (wireless application protocol) based on content from Shanghai Daily’s Website.
“It will create a [...]
China Mobile will launch 3G phones that cost less than 1,000 yuan (US$147) by using United States-based Marvell’s multi-function chipset, the chief executive and president of the American firm said yesterday in Shanghai.
At present, China Mobile’s Ophone handsets that use the home-developed 3G standard TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access), often cost 3,000 yuan [...]
