China’s largest cell phone operator, China Mobile, said yesterday that 3 million users were likely to subscribe to its third generation (3G) service by year-end and that the company was still in talks with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in the world’s largest mobile phone market.
Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, said in Hong Kong [...]
China Mobile, the world’s top mobile carrier by subscribers, yesterday said its call traffic has bounced back to pre-global downturn levels, lifted by a rebounding economy.
China Mobile’s international business dropped during the crisis but has now returned to normal levels, Chairman Wang Jianzhou said at an event in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province.
A return of [...]
Apple Inc’s mainland partner sold fewer iPhones than analysts anticipated in the product’s debut last week, raising concerns the price is too high to attract customers in the world’s biggest mobile phone market.
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd said it sold 5,000 iPhones since the Beijing-based carrier began offering the product on Oct 30. The phone [...]
China Unicom, the country’s second largest telecom operator, is expecting a big rise in its subscriber number after it launched the country’s first official sales of iPhone Friday night.
Analysts Saturday estimated the monthly rise to be 1.8 million in November, a sharp increase from September’s 935,000.
Unicom started selling iPhones equipped with 3G service in 285 [...]
China Unicom, the country’s second largest telecom operator, is expecting a big rise in its subscriber number after it launched the country’s first official sales of iPhone Friday night.
Analysts Saturday estimated the monthly rise to be 1.8 million in November, a sharp increase from September’s 935,000.
Unicom started selling iPhones equipped with 3G service in 285 [...]
In China’s 3G-market arena, China Mobile has always been the front-runner. It was the first carrier to launch 3G services, the first to run an online application store, and the first to release its own mobile operating system.
But the world’s largest cellphone operator now seems likely to lose the numero uno status for launching the [...]
