China Mobile Ltd, the world’s biggest phone company by subscribers, said Monday its deputy chairman is under investigation for unspecified offenses.
Zhang Chunjiang is being investigated “due to suspected serious personal violations,” the company said in a statement issued through the Hong Kong stock exchange, where its shares are traded. It gave no details.
Tags: China-Mobile, telecom
Canadian smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) said yesterday it would launch a customized version of the BlackBerry that supports China’s home-grown 3G standard, as part of its latest efforts to expand in the world’s largest mobile phone population.
Tags: 3G, China-Mobile, TD-SCDMA, telecom
China Mobile and Research in Motion will offer BlackBerry handsets and Internet service to consumers as well as smaller firms in China, the two firms said on Tuesday.
To attract more consumer users, China Mobile would offer BlackBerry phones on China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE networks, the companies said in a joint statement, intensifying the competition [...]
Mobile communication?giant China Mobile has frozen contracts with its mobile Internet partners in order to stem criticism that pornography was being sold through its network.
The move means it will not collect fees for its online partners, rendering paid services unavailable.
China Mobile’s music business unit has also temporarily ended cooperation with 256 Internet retailers.
“All service providers [...]
China’s major wireless telecom companies, all State-owned enterprises, are coming under pressure to eradicate access to porn through wireless application protocol (WAP) sites on mobile phones.
“The telecom operators collect fees from mobile WAP services and these operators will take most of the profits generated by porn content on WAP sites,” Wang Song, an official with [...]
China has vowed to step up its ongoing crackdown on mobile WAP sites offering pornography for mobile phone users, as such sites are taking measures to avoid supervision.
An official from the national office against pornographic and illegal publication told Xinhua Thursday that the office had ordered local authorities to “fully clean up” such WAP sites [...]
