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 Mobile, the biggest mobile telecom carrier in China, has reportedly made new progress cooperating with Google. And it will come up with the Ophone jointly with Google, according to insiders in the know. On top of that, other IT giants such as Lenovo will also join the league.
China Mobile is about to introduce Android, [...]
The latest flurry of turnaround plans for Motorola is being met with about as much enthusiasm as previous attempts to revive the company’s foundering mobile-phone business: not much.
During an Oct. 30 conference call discussing the third-quarter results that included falling sales and a wider loss, Motorola (MOT) co-CEO Sanjay Jha outlined plans to reduce costs, [...]
Motorola’s dreadful third quarter results and scheduled retreat from the European and parts of Asian territories is only part of the bad news from the ailing company.
And the postponement of plans to divest the mobile handsets division is just facing up to the realities of the bad state of this group, and the economic situation.
Third [...]
Huawei Technologies has won a plurality of the tenders awarded by China Telecom (CT) in the latest round of CDMA equipment supply bidding.
In total, Huawei has secured around 26% of the orders. But ZTE was hot on its heels, snatching up 23%.
Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola and Nortel split the majority of the remaining contracts, with Alcatel-Lucent winning [...]
The third-generation (3G) era is just around the corner, with the telecom restructuring nearing completion. As the world’s major provider of code division multiple access (CDMA), Qualcomm Inc has gained a lot from the rise of Chinese telecom manufacturers like ZTE and Huawei. Last year, 21 percent of Qualcomm’s revenue came from China.
The telecom provider [...]
