The official Shanghai Securities News has reported that China’s economic planning agency has proposed that fixed-line operators acquire China Unicom’s assets. This would create two entities with both mobile and fixed-line assets to challenge dominant cellular firm China Mobile.
According a report from the National Development and Reform Commission’s research bureau, the acquisition of Unicom assets [...]
China Netcom, China’s second largest fixed-line telephone company, has opened a London office to act as its European headquarters.
China Netcom wants to use its global telecoms network to serve the voice and data needs of Chinese companies with operations in Europe. It also wants to get the telecom business of European companies with operations in [...]
China’s telephone fees will continue to drop next year following a steady decrease over the past five years, China’s top information technology official said yesterday.
China’s telecommunications fees decreased 13.6 percent in 2007 and 53 percent over the past five years, according to Wang Xudong, the minister of the Ministry of Information Industry, the country’s top [...]
China is expected to issue full-service licenses to telecom operators in 2008, permitting them to operate both mobile and fixed-line services, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing information industry minister Wang Xudong.
Wang said the current industry structure, which limits China Telecom and China Netcom (NYSE:CN) to fixed-line operations and China Mobile and China Unicom [...]
According to latest statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry, China’s fixed line telephone subscribers continued to fall drastically during the first eleven months this year, with sales down 4.9% from the comparable period one year ago.
Under huge competitive pressures from China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, the big two landline telephone carriers [...]
Disappointing sellers and experts alike, the IPTV market in China has failed to capture the imagination of the public as was expected at the start of 2007, according to industry analysis firm iSuppli.
A year ago, Chinese operators predicted 1.3 million mainland IPTV (News - Alert) subscribers by the end of 2007, TechwebNews.com reported Friday. But [...]
