The State Council, or Cabinet, agreed at an executive meeting on Wednesday to start issuing licenses to mobile phone operators for third-generation (3G) high-speed networks.
3G networks handle faster data downloads, allowing cell phone users to make video calls and watch TV programs.
The 3G networks will use three technological standards, including the domestically developed TD-SCDMA (Time [...]
There has been a lot of confusion around China Mobile’s (CHL) future prospects in the wireless market. China Mobile is currently building out a 3G network standard known as TD-SCDMA, created in China and rife with protectionist tones and technical snafus. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has mandated that China Mobile build [...]
The Chinese government is currently studying the modalities of the 3G licensing policy along with ways to implement it and is likely to announce the policy soon, said China’s vice minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua.
Speaking at the China Mobility International Summit in Beijing today, Xi said the time is now ripe for [...]
Qualcomm and Cheng Uei Precision Industry, a Taiwan-based developer and manufacturer of communications devices, computers and consumer electronics, have entered into a module/modem card patent license agreement.
Under the terms of the royalty bearing agreement, Qualcomm has granted Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell modules and modem cards [...]
China Telecom has fully prepared for the project of updating the current CDMA network with the U.S. 3G standard CDMA2000 and would take the lead to put the updated network into trial operation at the yearend 2008, Beijing Daily quoted insider of China Telecom as saying.
Although the issue of 3G license is still on the [...]
China Mobile’s 400 million users will be allowed to switch to the carrier’s 3G services with their current numbers from next year, the world’s No. 1 mobile operator said yesterday.
The move, which is expected to boost the homegrown 3G industry, will be trialed in three cities including Tianjin in northern China, Shenzhen, in southern China’s [...]
