China may introduce “asymmetric regulations” for the telecommunications industry to protect the interests of smaller companies like China Unicom and China Telecom after the recent industry reorganization, top telecommunications executives said yesterday.
“Asymmetric regulations” like enforcing a mobile market share ceiling and asymmetric mobile number portability have been adopted by other countries to give every company [...]
China Mobile Ltd.’s first-half earnings should rise by up to 42 percent on strong customer demand, but future growth could be hurt by a government plan to restructure the country’s telecoms market, analysts say.
China Mobile, the world’s biggest phone company by subscribers, is due to report earnings on Wednesday.
Citigroup’s Michael Meng and Anand Ramachandran are [...]
China Unicom saw negative growth in pre-paid and post-paid CDMA cell phone subscribers in this July, reducing 413,000 from the previous month. The reduction is within expectation as China Unicom is delivering its CDMA networks to China Telecom.
By the end of July, the number of CDMA cell phone users of China Unicom declined to 42.756 [...]
The People’s Government of Hebei Province and China Netcom (CN) signed a strategic cooperative agreement at Bailou Hotel, Shijiazhuang this week.
According to the agreement, Hebei government will support China Netcom’s participation in the information construction of Hebei Province; support the extension of China Netcom’s information service platforms in Hebei Province. China Netcom will actively develop [...]
With the Beijing Olympics just around the corner, China is speeding up efforts to promote its home-grown 3G (third generation) standard TD-SCDMA.
Tags: 3G, CDMA2000, China-Mobile, China-Netcom, China-Telecom, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA
An insider at China Netcom (CN) has revealed that the company has completed the sales of most of its industrial assets, with the exception of several enterprises with poor operation.
According to the local media reports, the total value of China Netcom’s industrial assets is reportedly over CNY20 billion.
Tags: China-Netcom, China-Unicom
