China took another step toward its long-cherished goal of operating high-speed telecom services, with China Mobile dishing out over $4 billion of deals and smaller rival Unicom hoping to win a 3G license soon.
But analysts continued to warn that while the billions of dollars need to be invested under an ambitious government-orchestrated plan, carriers and [...]
In the midst of economic and market uncertainty, there are some companies that are still experiencing growth and hiring new employees, yet there are others that are feeling the strain and are making cuts in an effort to stay above water.
The telecommunications industry is not immune to the pressures of the economy and many are [...]
China Mobile has launched a second round bid for TD-SCDMA wireless network equipment which has attracted the attention of many China-based and international companies. Nokia Siemens Networks and its partner Huawei Technologies will both join the bid, according to industry sources.
The sources indicated that China Mobile is planning to purchase 23,000 base stations for 28 [...]
ZTE is expected to win a large part of the recent tender by China Telecom for IPTV system platforms and set-top boxes in which it is competing with ten other companies, Interfax China reports quoting an industry insider.
China Telecom has shortlisted 11 companies to supply 574,000 IPTV set-top boxes, comprising 536,000 standard-definition and 38,000 high-definition [...]
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., ZTE Corporation and Alcatel- Lucent shared the CNY 27.9 billion CDMA equipment contracts from state-owned telecommunications operator China Telecom.
China Telecom, which was encouraged to take over the CDMA network from China Unicom in the nation’s telecommunications industry regrouping, unveiled the result of its bidding invitation for CDMA equipment on August 20 [...]
In the sort of cloak and dagger conditions more usually reserved for the clandestine doings of security services spooks than the telco industry, last week more than a hundred China Telecom executives and researchers from all over the People’s Republic held a secret meeting with senior representatives of six CDMA vendors at Beijing’s Tangshan Holiday [...]
