The mainland telecoms regulator will likely issue licenses for third-generation (3G) mobile services today to all three telecom operators, a senior industry source said.
China Mobile (0941) will be issued a 3G license today, mainland news portal Sina.com reported yesterday.
However, the industry source said all three operators will receive 3G licenses on the same day. It [...]
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it would issue licences for next generation (3G) mobile networks to its three state-run carriers soon.
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier, will be issued a licence for TD-SCDMA at 2:30 pm (0630 GMT) on Wednesday, Wang Lijian, the director of the ministry’s news office, told Reuters [...]
Chinese government today officially awarded the long-awaited licenses for third generation (3G) mobile network to the country’s three telephone operators.
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone carrier, got a license to deploy 3G networks based on TD-SCDMA, a home-grown 3G standard. Smaller rivals China Unicom and China Telecom were granted license for WCDMA and CDMA2000 [...]
Development of China’s third-generation (3G) mobile telecommunications network service will enter a “golden time” despite the gloomy industrial situation worldwide, China Unicom Chairman Chang Xiaobing said in a published article.
“Although the world economy is undergoing a tough time amid the widespread financial crisis, and the telecommunications industry faces great uncertainty, China’s telecom carriers still expect [...]
China Mobile faces an uncertain future as China is ready to launch its third-generation (3G) mobile services. The company will be licensed to use a homegrown standard, which may leave users unenthused and shake its market dominance.
China Mobile will receive a license to operate services based on TD-SCDMA technology, which was developed domestically. China Unicom, [...]
For some time, China has been pushing to create its own telecommunications standards, for a number of reasonably obvious reasons. But now the country has decided to award a number of 3G mobile licenses, based not only on the Beijing-created TD-SCDMA standard, but on CDMA and WCDMA as well. From a purely practical consideration, this [...]
