Domestic telecommunications firms, including Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp, won an 88 percent share of China Mobile’s latest 3G network bid, which has a total value of more than 8.6 billion yuan (US$1.26 billion), a Beijing-based telecommunications research firm said yesterday.
The Chinese firms led China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) equipment market [...]
China Mobile will invest 70 billion yuan in the next three years to build and upgrade its networks in the country’s vast rural areas and promote the application of its 3G services in the countryside, as part of efforts to seek new growth engines amid slowing subscriber growth.
The world’s largest mobile carrier by number of [...]
The combined revenue and profit of China’s top electronics firms declined last year due to slumping exports caused by the global financial crisis, Shanghai Daily learned through figures released by the industry regulator yesterday.
The combined revenue of the top 100 electronics firms was 1.12 trillion yuan (US$164.7 billion) last year, a 12-percent decrease year on [...]
China Unicom’s Shanghai branch yesterday signed agreements with the Shanghai municipal government to invest 20 billion yuan (US$2.94 billion) in the next three years to improve communications technology and infrastructure for the city and World Expo 2010. The investment should create 10,000 jobs.
According to the pact, Shanghai Unicom will upgrade the 3G network, develop mobile [...]
Nokia Corp will launch 10 3G handsets in China by the end of this year, including a 3G phone costing less than 1,000 yuan (US$147), the world’s No. 1 mobile phone maker by sales said yesterday in Beijing.
Some of Nokia’s new 3G models, which are able to access the Internet at high speed, are updated [...]
China has relaxed a long-term restriction on Wi-Fi functions on mobile phones, which will improve the mobile Internet experience and boost sales of smart handsets, Shanghai Daily learned yesterday.
That will probably solve the biggest obstacle for the Wi-Fi-enabled Apple iPhone’s entry into the domestic market, insiders said. Motorola Inc and Nokia Corp’s two models, which [...]
