The launching of the third-generation services by China’s leading cell phone operators this fall signals the start of a battle for top position in the world’s largest mobile phone market.
For smaller rivals China Unicom and China Telecom, the goal is to topple long-time leader China Mobile.
Tags: 3G, CDMA2000, China-Mobile, China-Telecom, China-Unicom, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA
China Unicom has agreed to buy back its stake from SK Telecom for HK$10 billion (US$1.3 billion) after SK offered to cease a three-year alliance.
The country’s second-largest mobile phone carrier said it will repurchase the 3.79-percent stake held by SK Telecom at HK$11.105 per share, 1.4 percent lower than Unicom’s last close in Hong Kong [...]
China Unicom’s Shanghai branch and Shanghai Daily are jointly developing 3G applications and an English-language mobile Website.
The cooperation includes a news service on mobile phones with daily headlines in English, a World Expo 2010-theme mobile application and a Unicom English wap portal (wireless application protocol) based on content from Shanghai Daily’s Website.
“It will create a [...]
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’s mobile phone market has long been dominated by foreign brands. But Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment Co is betting on the country’s 3G cell phone market for a domestic breakthrough.
Tags: 3G, CDMA2000, China-Mobile, China-Telecom, China-Unicom, GSM, TD-SCDMA, telecom, WCDMA
China’s top three telecommunication operators, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, invested 80 billion yuan to boost the third-generation (3G) network so far this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Wednesday.
China Mobile, the leading mobile network operator, has opened 3G service in 38 companies based on the domestically-developed TD-SCDMA 3G standard, [...]
