Ericsson has refused to scale back investments in China as it prepares for the launch of a lucrative 3G market.
Johan Bergendahl of Ericsson explained that the industry is shifting its focus from the West to Asian Pacific countries such as China and India. However, Bergendahl did admit that the impact of the worldwide economic recession [...]
China registered 3.22 million new mobile phone subscribers in October, far less than the average monthly increase of 8.5 million recorded in the first nine months to September, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Saturday.
By the end of last month, China had more than 627.26 million handset users, the MIIT said in [...]
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 [...]
There was an increasing number of complaints from consumers about the Chinese telecommunications industry in the third quarter, mainly about broadband and mobile Internet services, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the industry regulator, said yesterday.
These were due, in part, to industry reorganization, which began in June. Under the reorganization, China Mobile acquired China [...]
China Telecom<728>, which acquired the CDMA business from China Unicom<600050><762> in October amid a government-initiated industrial restructuring, expects to gain a bigger share in China’s mobile telecoms market, sources reported.
The company said it would invest RMB 80 billion in three years to upgrade and enlarge the existing CDMA network.
Tags: China-Telecom, China-Unicom
Ericsson AB and ZTE Corp are among phone-equipment makers that will be buffered against the global recession next year by the expansion of wireless networks in China and India, according to industry executives.
“Every industry in the world is cutting, but here is one where you are seeing the commitment to see the spending continue,” said [...]
