China Telecom Ltd yesterday said its net profit in the first three quarters of this year sank 34 percent on weakening demand for traditional fixed-line phone services.
It earned 11.4 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) for the nine months ended September 30, compared with 17.2 billion yuan in the same period a year earlier, the Beijing-based company [...]
China’s mobile communications business accounted for more than 60 percent of the total telecommunications industry income in the first nine months, a record high since the country started to collect such figures a decade ago, the industry regulator said Monday.
The portion of fixed line income fell 4 percentage points year on year to 28.2 percent [...]
The launching of the third-generation services by China’s leading cell phone operators this fall signals the start of a battle for top position in the world’s largest mobile phone market.
For smaller rivals China Unicom and China Telecom, the goal is to topple long-time leader China Mobile.
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China’s mobile communications business accounted for more than 60 percent of the total telecommunications industry income in the first nine months, a record high since the country started to collect such figures a decade ago, the industry regulator said yesterday.
The portion of fixed line income fell 4 percentage points year on year to 28.2 percent [...]
INDIA’S Unitech Wireless, 49 percent owned by Norway’s Telenor, said yesterday that China’s ZTE Corp would set up GSM systems and network equipment in three telecom zones and maintain them for five years. No financial terms were disclosed.
Unitech Wireless, a unit of realty firm Unitech, holds licenses to provide mobile phone services across all 22 [...]
Apple’s iPhone 3G will make its debut on the Chinese mainland market on October 30 as scheduled and aspiring users will have to sign a two-year contract with China Unicom, the country’s No. 2 telco said yesterday.
Getting users to sign a contract is one way for China Unicom to lure subscribers to its network and [...]
