Domestic telecommunications firms, including Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp, won an 88 percent share of China Mobile’s latest 3G network bid, which has a total value of more than 8.6 billion yuan (US$1.26 billion), a Beijing-based telecommunications research firm said yesterday.
The Chinese firms led China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) equipment market [...]
China Mobile will invest 70 billion yuan in the next three years to build and upgrade its networks in the country’s vast rural areas and promote the application of its 3G services in the countryside, as part of efforts to seek new growth engines amid slowing subscriber growth.
The world’s largest mobile carrier by number of [...]
Fewer new subscribers signed up with China Mobile and China Unicom in May while China Telecom attracted more users in terms of percentage, the telcos said yesterday.
This may have started to change the competition structure in the domestic telecommunications market where China Mobile has dominated for a decade, an analyst said.
“It’s a normal situation and [...]
China Mobile will invest 31 billion yuan (US$4.59 billion) in Shanghai until 2011, mainly for the construction of the next generation mobile communications network and 3G preparation for the World Expo 2010, the telco said yesterday.
The investment will create about 3,000 new jobs in the city during the period under a deal signed between China [...]
Shares of China Unicom jumped an accumulated 18 percent on the Shanghai stock market in the past few trading days, as the country’s second biggest mobile carrier is expected to launch its new 3G logo and services today.
China Unicom will adopt the WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) technology, the most mature 3G standard of [...]
China Mobile outlets have begun selling small laptops equipped with 3G chipsets for Internet access, and to entice customers, the country’s largest mobile phone company is also offering a discount of up to half the cost if consumers subscribe to the carrier’s mobile broadband services.
The strategy, aimed at increasing the company’s customer base in a [...]
