China’s Internet-enabled television - or IPTV - market has disappointed this year, according to industry analysts with iSuppli.
The research and consulting company said that China failed to meet expectations for subscriber growth and shipments in 2007. Chinese operators had predicted 1.3 million mainland subscribers by the end of this year, but iSuppli said it looks [...]
AS telecommunications firms were the stars on the stock market this year, it has become almost the norm, and not news anymore, when Goldman Sachs or UBS raised their target price for China Mobile, again and again.
Investors should make China Mobile their top stock choice, followed by Hong Kong-listed China Unicom, Shanghai-listed China Unicom, China [...]
China’s economic planning agency has proposed that fixed-line operators acquire China Unicom’s assets, creating two entities with both mobile and fixed-line assets to challenge dominant cellular firm China Mobile, the official Shanghai Securities News reported.
According a report from the National Development and Reform Commission’s research bureau, the acquisition of Unicom assets by fixed-line operators China [...]
China Unicom Ltd., the smaller of the nation’s two mobile-phone operators, rose to the highest in Hong Kong trading in almost a month after a report said the country’s top economic planning agency supported a breakup of Unicom.
The shares gained 3.6 percent to HK$17.36, their best performance since Nov. 30, at the end of trading. [...]
China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reported a year of prosperity. Annual profits were forecast to surge 30 percent to nearly a trillion yuan (135.8 U.S. billion) this year, however, it was evident many still had a long way to go to become internationally competitive.
China currently has 152 centrally administered SOEs, all under the supervision of the [...]
By November 2007, China saw a total of 1.142 million IPTV subscribers, an increase of 110% from the comparable period one year ago, reflecting an industry is growing at a startling rate, according to Lou Qinjian, vice minister of the Ministry of Information Industry of the country.
In the meanwhile, an increasing number of companies are [...]
