China Unicom said yesterday it had reached an agreement with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in China in the last quarter of this year, ending months of speculation about when the highly popular product would finally reach the mainland.
As the only company in China that supports the network standard needed for the iPhone, known as [...]
China Telecom has purchased 4 million 3G handsets, including models priced at only 1,000 yuan (US$147), in a move expected to help the telecommunications carrier penetrate the medium-and-entry level market, the firm said yesterday.
China Telecom ordered the handsets from 31 firms, including ZTE, Samsung and Coolpad. The first entry-level phones are expected to debut by [...]
China Mobile yesterday reported its first drop in net profit since 1999 because of rising competition from rivals China Telecom and China Unicom and its weak 3G performance.
The world’s biggest telco posted a net profit of 30.1 billion yuan (US$4.42 billion) in the second quarter, compared with 30.6 billion yuan a year ago.
Analysts had previously [...]
China Telecom said Tuesday a damaged undersea cable caused by a major earthquake off Taiwan Monday is responsible for disruptions to international telecom services.
The Shanghai branch of China Telecom said the earthquake and earlier undersea landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot had damaged nine underseas cables southeast of Taiwan.
Five of the cables are used by China [...]
Internet users in Shanghai found yesterday that international cyber connections, which slowed significantly on Monday due to storm and quake damage to undersea telecommunications cables, began to flow a little faster.
China Telecom, which operates the country’s biggest fixed-line network, reported that about 60 percent of its international connections were back on line by 7pm yesterday [...]
China Mobile launched its online software and application store on Monday, said Tuesday’s China Daily.
It was the first such store to be run by a telecom carrier and a major move by the world’s biggest mobile phone operator to create new revenue streams as competition intensifies, said the newspaper.
The Mobile Market store, or www.market.com, is [...]
