China’s mobile phone market has long been dominated by foreign brands. But Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment Co is betting on the country’s 3G cell phone market for a domestic breakthrough.
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Shares of China Unicom jumped an accumulated 18 percent on the Shanghai stock market in the past few trading days, as the country’s second biggest mobile carrier is expected to launch its new 3G logo and services today.
China Unicom will adopt the WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) technology, the most mature 3G standard of [...]
China Mobile outlets have begun selling small laptops equipped with 3G chipsets for Internet access, and to entice customers, the country’s largest mobile phone company is also offering a discount of up to half the cost if consumers subscribe to the carrier’s mobile broadband services.
The strategy, aimed at increasing the company’s customer base in a [...]
CHINA Telecom’s net profit plunged 27 percent in the first quarter year on year as demand for fixed-line services slowed but it reversed a huge loss in the previous quarter, the country’s biggest fixed-line phone firm said yesterday.
But the company’s mobile service subscriber base increased in the first quarter for the first time since it [...]
Netbooks with built-in 3G chipsets will be on sale in Shanghai on Monday.
They will allow users Internet access anywhere there is a mobile phone signal, China Mobile’s Shanghai branch said yesterday.
The netbooks, which cost from 3,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan (US$439 to US$732), feature 10.1-inch screens, Intel CPUs and a chipset supporting China Mobile’s 3G [...]
Progress on China Unicom’s WCDMA network is on track as more than 20 cities have carried out a series of video call tests which are seen as key in a third-generation network, telecommunications equipment makers said yesterday.
The tests carried out over a period of time signaled a faster pace for China Unicom’s 3G ambitions as [...]
