China Mobile to cut staff salaries by 10%

China’s largest mobile operator China Mobile is to cut staff payments for five consecutive years starting from 2010, the National Business Daily reported today citing company insiders.
The report says the company’s staff will see their payments decline by 10 percent each year, as required by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), which currently [...]

Official denies report on mobile real name registration

An official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said it has no plan to launch a real name registration policy for mobile phone users in Beijing in April, Wednesday’s National Business Daily reported.
Earlier reports said the ministry will require new mobile phone users in Beijing to register their names with their numbers [...]

More users join the 3G bandwagon

China’s third generation (3G) mobile technology users hit 13.25 million at the end of last year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Meanwhile, the number of users of the nation’s homegrown 3G standard TD-SCDMA, which has been adopted by China Mobile, hit 5.51 million at the end of last year.
The number of [...]

Mobile phone brands top online buzz

Edelman, the world’s leading independent public relations firm, and Brandtology, one of the larger independent business and brand service providers, Tuesday unveiled their second edition of the quarterly Digital Brand Index for China, which tracked netizen behavior and technology brand activities in the last quarter of 2009.
Between October and December 2009, the index monitored 472 [...]

Buyers snap up smuggled iPhones

Despite warnings that up to 80 percent of smuggled iPhones on the market are fake, there is strong demand for bootleg handsets in Beijing.
China Unicom has reported lackluster sales of just 100,000 since the iPhone was officially launched in China on Oct 30.

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China Mobile, RIM to offer BlackBerry to China consumer

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 [...]

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