China Mobile Ltd, the world’s largest mobile carrier, and smaller rival China Unicom Ltd are expected to announce strong growth in 2007 net profit as the rising number of cellphone users continued to boost revenue.
But in 2008, their push into China’s high-growth rural areas could weigh on the mobile carriers’ margins as they offer more [...]
Chang Xiaobing, president of China Unicom (CHU) and a deputy to the National People’s Political and Consultative Committee, says that China Unicom will not reduce the investment on its network because of the restructuring of the telecom industry. Instead, he says that the company will invest no less than RMB20 billion to upgrade its GSM [...]
Reportlinker has issued a new report, which notes that in 2007, China mobile phone output reached approximately 594.4 million units, among which, 548 million units were legal products from official mobile phone producers and 46.4 million units were illegal products.
In 2007, sales volume reached 180.7 million units, amounting to 16% of the world total. In [...]
China Unicom will invest at least 20bn yuan on its GSM network this year, says chairman Chang Xiaobing. He said the industry restructure will not drive down network investment, jinghua.cn website reported.
Chang said GSM network expansion has been the operator’s policy for the last two years, adding that Unicom would build “according to its requirements”.
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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (”Huawei“) a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, is exhibiting its innovative ALL IP Broadband, Mobility and convergence solutions at CeBIT 2008, which is held in Hannover, Germany from 4–9 March 2008.
Huawei is presenting a comprehensive suite of robust ALL IP Fixed Mobile Convergence [...]
Mobile operator Hong Kong CSL Ltd. , a long-time Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) customer, is set to award a cellular network upgrade contract to ZTE Corp. instead of its incumbent supplier, Unstrung has learned.
The award looks set to be a double blow to NSN because, according to industry sources, the European joint venture has not [...]
