The Chinese government is currently studying the modalities of the 3G licensing policy along with ways to implement it and is likely to announce the policy soon, said China’s vice minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua.
Speaking at the China Mobility International Summit in Beijing today, Xi said the time is now ripe for [...]
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.
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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology yesterday required telecom carriers to issue 3G licenses to TD, WCDMA, and CDMA 2000 telecom networks operators within this year.
China’s telecom industry has slipped into recession as a result of the global financial crisis. The ministry originally planned to issue three 3G licenses to China Mobile, China Telecom [...]
ZTE Corp has won a contract worth 1.33 billion yuan (US$195.6 million) from China Telecom to expand the telco’s newly acquired mobile network, and with this deal it will become the leading player in the domestic CDMA (code division multiple access) network equipment market, the supplier said yesterday.
The deal will likely boost Shenzhen-based ZTE’s chances [...]
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 [...]
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., the country’s second-biggest mobile-phone carrier, “hopes” to gain a license for faster wireless services by year-end, Chairman Chang Xiaobing said.
The government will accelerate the process of awarding the licenses as spending on the construction of third-generation mobile-phone networks will boost the economy, Chang said at the Mobile Asia Congress conference [...]
