China Telecom customers who join one of its three promotional packages will not be charged when answering phones in 31 provinces and municipalities nationwide from October 1, the company announced on September 22, Chinanews.com reported.
Analysts pointed out the new rules mean that China Telecom, one of the three telecom carriers in China, has effectively cancelled [...]
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. Said Sunday that it signed a deal with Telefonica, the Spanish telecom operator, to enhance their alliance by spending 1 billion U.S. dollars each on share purchase.
China Unicom would acquire shares equal to about between 0.885 percent to 0.892 percent of stake in Telefonica, according to the company’s statement to [...]
China Unicom’s Shanghai branch and Shanghai Daily are jointly developing 3G applications and an English-language mobile Website.
The cooperation includes a news service on mobile phones with daily headlines in English, a World Expo 2010-theme mobile application and a Unicom English wap portal (wireless application protocol) based on content from Shanghai Daily’s Website.
“It will create a [...]
China Mobile will launch 3G phones that cost less than 1,000 yuan (US$147) by using United States-based Marvell’s multi-function chipset, the chief executive and president of the American firm said yesterday in Shanghai.
At present, China Mobile’s Ophone handsets that use the home-developed 3G standard TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access), often cost 3,000 yuan [...]
Spain’s Telefonica yesterday said it had reached a deal with China Unicom whereby each would buy US$1 billion worth of each other’s shares as part of a strategic alliance.
The Spanish telecoms company said in a regulatory statement that its stake in China Unicom would rise to about 8.06 percent, while the Chinese telco would hold [...]
The number of mobile phone users in China surpassed 700 million by the end of July, double the total population in the United States, as more people switched from fixed-line phones, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said yesterday.
The telecommunications revenue reached 477.49 billion yuan (US$69.9 billion) in the first seven months, a growth [...]
