China Unicom Ltd, the smaller one of China’s two mobile operators, said on Friday it added 1.63 million users in March and 1.49 million in February.
By last month end, its total subscribers amounted to 167 million, compared with 165 million by the end of February.
Tags: CDMA, China-Mobile, China-Unicom, GSM
Ericsson, the Swedish telecom equipment supplier, has signed GSM expansion framework agreement with two leading Chinese mobile operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, valued at US$1.3 billion and US$140 million respectively, sources reported.
Under the agreement, Ericsson will assist China Mobile to expand GSM/GPRS coverage and capacity in 19 regions across China by supplying core and [...]
The telecom industry restructuring plan is expected to be announced within the first half of the year, for implementation after the Olympic Games in August, the official Shanghai Securities News reported, citing sources close to the matter.
Regulators will also announce changes in the senior management of China’s four main telecom firms at that time.
Tags: CDMA, [...]
China’s plans to license 3G networks - widely expected to accompany a complete shakeup of the local market, are likely to be delayed for a couple of years an Ernst & Young partner was quoted as saying in a local newspaper.
Jonathan Dharmapalan, partner and head of Ernst & Young’s global telecommunications centre in Beijing told [...]
On the eve of mass application of 3G networks, China Unicom, the second largest mobile telecom carrier in this country, is spending heavily on GSM networks.
Previously, China Unicom had been focusing on construction of CDMA networks, while CDMA business has been its mainstream. Its CDMA sales soared 30% in the first half of 2007, compared [...]
ZTE Corp, China’s No.2 telecoms equipment supplier, said on Wednesday it had inked a network equipment agreement with the world’s second largest mobile operator by users, Vodafone Group Plc.
The agreement is a contract framework, which can be used if Vodafone chooses ZTE as its network equipment supplier in the future. It covers ZTE’s full equipment [...]
