Almost every household in Shanghai will be able to access upgraded fixed-line broadband services 50 times faster than current speeds within three years, China Telecom’s Shanghai branch said yesterday.
The city’s biggest fixed-line phone carrier, which plans to invest 26 billion yuan (US$3.8 billion) in Shanghai within the next two years, will also improve broadband networks [...]
Chinese companies including China Mobile and China Construction Bank signed purchase deals with US firms worth US$10.6 billion during a meeting in Washington between top trade officials of the two countries.
The deals mainly involved the new energy, telecommunications equipment, electronics and auto component sectors, which are expected by both countries to help provide an impetus [...]
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 [...]
Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Group, a major home-grown 3G technology developer, signed an agreement with the Shanghai government yesterday to co-develop the next-generation mobile technology and make the city a major hub for 3G.
Under the agreement, Datang Group plans to invest heavily in 3G, or third generation, and 4G technology research, 3G equipment manufacturing [...]
China Unicom, which will adopt the WCDMA, is expected to invest 100 billion yuan (US$14.7 billion) to finish construction of its third generation network in 282 cities by the end of this year, the telecommunication carrier said yesterday.
The telco, the country’s No. 2 mobile carrier, will launch the wideband code division multiple access, a 3G [...]
China Unicom plans to launch its first WCDMA network equipment tender within the next seven days and to commence offering WCDMA services in mid-May, a China Unicom source told Interfax on Jan. 12.
“Our technology assessment has been completed and the tender will be opened around a week from now,” the source at China Unicom’s network [...]
