China Telecom has purchased 4 million 3G handsets, including models priced at only 1,000 yuan (US$147), in a move expected to help the telecommunications carrier penetrate the medium-and-entry level market, the firm said yesterday.
China Telecom ordered the handsets from 31 firms, including ZTE, Samsung and Coolpad. The first entry-level phones are expected to debut by [...]
China Mobile signed agreements with Taiwan-based HTC Corp, the world’s No. 4 smartphone maker, to jointly develop 3G handsets based on home-grown technology, both sides said yesterday.
The deal is expected to help China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile carrier, increase its variety of 3G handsets based on home-grown TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) [...]
China Mobile yesterday reported its first drop in net profit since 1999 because of rising competition from rivals China Telecom and China Unicom and its weak 3G performance.
The world’s biggest telco posted a net profit of 30.1 billion yuan (US$4.42 billion) in the second quarter, compared with 30.6 billion yuan a year ago.
Analysts had previously [...]
China Mobile launched its online software and application store on Monday, said Tuesday’s China Daily.
It was the first such store to be run by a telecom carrier and a major move by the world’s biggest mobile phone operator to create new revenue streams as competition intensifies, said the newspaper.
The Mobile Market store, or www.market.com, is [...]
China Mobile yesterday opened a mobile applications store online to provide its more than 500 million handset subscribers services, including games and music.
Mobile Market is the first mobile application store founded by a carrier and is similar to Apple Inc’s AppStore and Nokia’s Ovi.
Mobile Market will provide applications for all mobile platforms except iPhone, which [...]
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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