China Unicom’s Shanghai branch yesterday signed agreements with the Shanghai municipal government to invest 20 billion yuan (US$2.94 billion) in the next three years to improve communications technology and infrastructure for the city and World Expo 2010. The investment should create 10,000 jobs.
According to the pact, Shanghai Unicom will upgrade the 3G network, develop mobile [...]
China has relaxed a long-term restriction on Wi-Fi functions on mobile phones, which will improve the mobile Internet experience and boost sales of smart handsets, Shanghai Daily learned yesterday.
That will probably solve the biggest obstacle for the Wi-Fi-enabled Apple iPhone’s entry into the domestic market, insiders said. Motorola Inc and Nokia Corp’s two models, which [...]
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 Unicom launched its third-generation services in Shanghai and 54 other cities nationwide yesterday, the last of the three domestic telcos to do so.
With network access 100 times faster than 2G, 3G services include video conferencing and film downloading.
The development of 3G, however, faces challenges from the high price of packages, a lack of top [...]
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 Unicom will launch its third-generation mobile phone services by the end of this month, mainly in five 3G services - data card, mobile music, mobile TV, mobile search and video call, the company said yesterday.
This is the first time China Unicom, the country’s No. 2 mobile carrier, has revealed details of its 3G plan, [...]
