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 [...]
China Unicom is scheduled to launch its first WCDMA trail network on December 31, 2008 and users in Wuxi now can apply to participate in the experiment by sending shortage messages.
Chinese regulators are likely to issue 3G licenses at 2008-end. China Unicom, which expects to obtain the WCDMA license, has kicked off works on WCDMA [...]
Chang Xiaobing, chairman and CEO of China Unicom, has stated that he expected the Chinese government to speed up the issuing of 3G licenses. Once a W-CDMA (UMTS), one of the international 3G standards, license is issued to China Unicom, they will start testing their 3G network in seven Chinese cities by the end of [...]
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.
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