China’s smaller telecom operator China Unicom will pay 6.43 billion yuan ($939 million) in cash to buy fixed-line assets from its parent company and China Netcom.
The deal is part of China’s telecom industry overhaul launched in June, which is aimed to break China Mobile’s monopoly and speed up the pace of rolling out third generation [...]
Investment in third-generation mobile in 2009 will play an important role in boosting the domestic economy and mitigating the effects of the global financial crisis, Li Yizhong, Minister of Industry and Information Technology said.
‘We estimate that investment (in 3G) will be at least 200 bln yuan next year, and this will also be of great [...]
China will issue 3G mobile wireless licenses by the end of 2008 or early next year, said Li Yizhong, China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said at a press conference on Friday.
Networks using China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA platform will be run by China Mobile Ltd<941>, while networks with WCDMA and CDMA 2000 platform will [...]
China Unicom is scheduled to launch its first WCDMA trail network on December 31, 2008 and users in Wuxi now can apply to participate in the experiment by sending shortage messages.
Chinese regulators are likely to issue 3G licenses at 2008-end. China Unicom, which expects to obtain the WCDMA license, has kicked off works on WCDMA [...]
The Chinese government is currently studying the modalities of the 3G licensing policy along with ways to implement it and is likely to announce the policy soon, said China’s vice minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua.
Speaking at the China Mobility International Summit in Beijing today, Xi said the time is now ripe for [...]
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology yesterday required telecom carriers to issue 3G licenses to TD, WCDMA, and CDMA 2000 telecom networks operators within this year.
China’s telecom industry has slipped into recession as a result of the global financial crisis. The ministry originally planned to issue three 3G licenses to China Mobile, China Telecom [...]
