Net profit at China Unicom Ltd, which will debut its 3G services in 55 cities nationwide in May, jumped 58 percent year on year, boosted by the sale of a wireless unit to China Telecom Corp Ltd.
The country’s No. 2 mobile carrier aims to invest 110 billion yuan (US$16.17 billion), a 56-percent growth year on [...]
Alcatel-Lucent announced yesterday that it has been selected by China Unicom to provide 3G network equipment and related services in 14 provinces, a signal of the telco’s faster pace to construct its 3G network.
Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, the company’s joint venture in China, will provide WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) equipment, including [...]
Progress on China Unicom’s WCDMA network is on track as more than 20 cities have carried out a series of video call tests which are seen as key in a third-generation network, telecommunications equipment makers said yesterday.
The tests carried out over a period of time signaled a faster pace for China Unicom’s 3G ambitions as [...]
Huawei Technologies won the most new 3G-network contracts globally last year and its wireless division, including 2G and 3G equipment and services, generated revenue of US$10 billion last year, the country’s biggest telecommunications equipment maker said yesterday.
The Shenzhen-based firm is expected to land many more deals this year as China only began 3G services in [...]
China Telecom added mobile phone users in January, the first time since the company reported its newly-acquired mobile business in October, the country’s biggest fixed-line phone carrier said yesterday.
It added 1.02 million wireless users to bring the total to 28.9 million as of the end of January. Before that, it lost 1.17 million CDMA (code [...]
China Unicom, expected to start 3G services in May, is negotiating with Apple Inc to launch the iPhone 3G in China’s mainland, and if an agreement is sealed it will probably be the first legal iPhone sold in the domestic market, sources said yesterday.
Though the iPhone hasn’t been introduced in the mainland officially, several million [...]
