China Unicom, the nation’s leading telecommunications operator, announced Sunday it would invest 1.8 billion yuan ($265 million) in Tibet to upgrade the information infrastructure on the plateau.
The investment will be put into place in five years, said Lu Yimin, general manager of China Unicom, after the company signed a cooperation pact with the government of [...]
Mobile communication?giant China Mobile has frozen contracts with its mobile Internet partners in order to stem criticism that pornography was being sold through its network.
The move means it will not collect fees for its online partners, rendering paid services unavailable.
China Mobile’s music business unit has also temporarily ended cooperation with 256 Internet retailers.
“All service providers [...]
China’s major wireless telecom companies, all State-owned enterprises, are coming under pressure to eradicate access to porn through wireless application protocol (WAP) sites on mobile phones.
“The telecom operators collect fees from mobile WAP services and these operators will take most of the profits generated by porn content on WAP sites,” Wang Song, an official with [...]
Apple enter into the world’s largest wireless market, Apple and carrier China Unicom have struck a deal to sell iPhones in China.
The official iPhone heading to China isn’t exactly the same as the ones we see here: Apple removed Wi-Fi hardware from its iPhones for China Unicom to comply with Chinese government standards. Luckily for [...]
China Unicom, the nation’s second largest cell phone carrier, said on Friday it expects nearly 10 percent of the third generation (3G) users in the country to switch to Apple Inc’s iPhone in the next couple of years.
Tian Wenke, general manager of corporate business department of China Unicom, told China Daily that the smartphone has [...]
China’s regulators yesterday said charges for fixed-line telephone services should not exceed charges set in 2001 to encourage market competition and protect consumer rights.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission yesterday said: “We have set up an upper price to protect consumers, and telecommunications [...]
