China Trade Information

Start Date
20-JUL-09
End Date
22-JUL-09

Venue
City / State
Country

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

Wan Chai
China (Hong Kong S.A.R.)

Event Profile:
Broadband World Forum Asia (BBWF Asia) is the leading-edge technology exhibition featuring broadband technologies, equipment, applications, solutions, and services. Take advantage of this ideal opportunity to discuss new advancements and technologies with key companies and receive a firsthand look at [...]

Net profit at China Unicom Ltd, which will debut its 3G services in 55 cities nationwide in May, jumped 58 percent year on year, boosted by the sale of a wireless unit to China Telecom Corp Ltd.
The country’s No. 2 mobile carrier aims to invest 110 billion yuan (US$16.17 billion), a 56-percent growth year on [...]

China Unicom, expected to start 3G services in May, is negotiating with Apple Inc to launch the iPhone 3G in China’s mainland, and if an agreement is sealed it will probably be the first legal iPhone sold in the domestic market, sources said yesterday.
Though the iPhone hasn’t been introduced in the mainland officially, several million [...]

China Unicom, which will adopt the WCDMA, is expected to invest 100 billion yuan (US$14.7 billion) to finish construction of its third generation network in 282 cities by the end of this year, the telecommunication carrier said yesterday.
The telco, the country’s No. 2 mobile carrier, will launch the wideband code division multiple access, a 3G [...]

China Unicom plans to launch its first WCDMA network equipment tender within the next seven days and to commence offering WCDMA services in mid-May, a China Unicom source told Interfax on Jan. 12.
“Our technology assessment has been completed and the tender will be opened around a week from now,” the source at China Unicom’s network [...]

As far as Intel’s Barrett is concerned, WiMAX is here to stay because of its first mover advantage in the market while LTE is still “two years away”. On the other hand, Ericsson’s Eriksson is adamant that there is an inevitability that carriers will upgrade to LTE from their existing, less advanced 3G technologies, as [...]