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 [...]
At a Guangdong 3G Industry Alliance forum held yesterday, a spokesperson for China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA project revealed that the company will invest RMB 110 bln to upgrade its GSM networks in preparation for TD-SCDMA. China Mobile is currently testing whether it can upgrade its GSM network to act as the core network for TD-SCDMA technology.
At [...]
The possible impact of the global financial crisis on China’s telecom industryOn Oct. 9, the Nasdaq, which lists science and technology stocks, plunged more than 5 percent to below 1,700 points, led by big Internet companies like Google, Yahoo and Amazon.
With the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the most serious financial crisis since the subprime mortgage [...]
Qualcomm and Cheng Uei Precision Industry, a Taiwan-based developer and manufacturer of communications devices, computers and consumer electronics, have entered into a module/modem card patent license agreement.
Under the terms of the royalty bearing agreement, Qualcomm has granted Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell modules and modem cards [...]
