China Mobile, the biggest mobile telecom carrier in China, has reportedly made new progress cooperating with Google. And it will come up with the Ophone jointly with Google, according to insiders in the know. On top of that, other IT giants such as Lenovo will also join the league.
China Mobile is about to introduce Android, [...]
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., the country’s second-biggest mobile-phone carrier, “hopes” to gain a license for faster wireless services by year-end, Chairman Chang Xiaobing said.
The government will accelerate the process of awarding the licenses as spending on the construction of third-generation mobile-phone networks will boost the economy, Chang said at the Mobile Asia Congress conference [...]
At a Guangdong 3G Industry Alliance forum held yesterday, a spokesperson for China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA project revealed that the company will invest RMB 110 bln to upgrade its GSM networks in preparation for TD-SCDMA. China Mobile is currently testing whether it can upgrade its GSM network to act as the core network for TD-SCDMA technology.
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The possible impact of the global financial crisis on China’s telecom industryOn Oct. 9, the Nasdaq, which lists science and technology stocks, plunged more than 5 percent to below 1,700 points, led by big Internet companies like Google, Yahoo and Amazon.
With the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the most serious financial crisis since the subprime mortgage [...]
China’s top telecoms carriers displayed next-generation products and services during the China International Industry Fair yesterday. It was the first time telecoms firms have showcased their products since the industry reorganization announcement earlier this year.
Carriers, such as China Telecom and China Unicom, exhibited 3G and fixed-mobile convergence services, such as mobile video monitoring and family [...]
Motorola’s dreadful third quarter results and scheduled retreat from the European and parts of Asian territories is only part of the bad news from the ailing company.
And the postponement of plans to divest the mobile handsets division is just facing up to the realities of the bad state of this group, and the economic situation.
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