China Telecom one of the world’s largest fixed line phone operators will begin offering a mobile phone service from October 1, the company has announced.
The company moved into the mobile market by purchasing the existing CDMA network of local firm China Unicom for $16.1bn in June. The transfer was part of a government-orchestrated reshuffle of [...]
China’s homegrown 3G standard has seen its fair share of bumps on its road to deployment.
Initially slated for wide deployment during the Beijing Olympics, connectivity issues including dropped network connections and spotty coverage prevented China Mobile–the country’s largest mobile operator and the one leading the TD-SCDMA rollout–from making this a reality for the Games.
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Despite deployment troubles, China’s homegrown 3G standard will likely be given more than a fighting chance to take off there, according to analysts.
That standard, TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access), has seen its fair share of bumps on its road to deployment.
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Shanghai’s third-generation, or 3G, mobile phone network now covers 98 percent of the downtown area.
This means residents in Shanghai will have access to high-speed data services, such as mobile television, in time for Friday’s opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Yesterday, China Mobile’s Shanghai branch began offering short-term TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) [...]
China Unicom, the second largest mobile telecom carrier in China, is planning to invest RMB 3 billion to further upgrade GSM network for its Henan branch this year, according to a company’s announcement.
Newspaper reports said China Unicom Henan branch has invested a total of RMB 10 billion to expand its existing GSM network, which has [...]
China Unicom Group, Hong Kong-listed China Unicom Ltd and China Telecom Co Ltd have signed a final agreement covering the latter’s acquisition of Unicom’s CDMA business, China Unicom said in a statement filed with Shanghai Stock Exchange.
According to the agreement, the transaction value remains unchanged from the level cited in the framework agreement announced on [...]
