3G brings a boom to mobile phone industry

When the Chinese government issued the long awaited third generation (3G) license to three domestic telecom operators a year ago, few imagined the number of the country’s 3G users would reach nearly 15 million within one year.

Tags: 3G, CDMA2000, China-Mobile, China-Telecom, industry, mobile, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA

China’s Telecom company sees Indonesia as one of biggest markets in Asia Pacific

China’s Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment (ZTE) sees Indonesia as one of the biggest market in Asia Pacific area and will strengthen cooperation with local telecommunication companies in the future, an senior ZTE official said Friday.
Cui Yi, president of Asia Pacific Region of ZTE Corporation, made the statement at a press conference held here to start a [...]

China Mobile, RIM to offer BlackBerry to China consumer

China Mobile and Research in Motion will offer BlackBerry handsets and Internet service to consumers as well as smaller firms in China, the two firms said on Tuesday.
To attract more consumer users, China Mobile would offer BlackBerry phones on China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE networks, the companies said in a joint statement, intensifying the competition [...]

Phone giant bullish on 3G adoption

China’s largest cell phone operator, China Mobile, said yesterday that 3 million users were likely to subscribe to its third generation (3G) service by year-end and that the company was still in talks with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in the world’s largest mobile phone market.
Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, said in Hong Kong [...]

Nokia launches 3G China Mobile handset

Nokia Corp launched its first China-standard 3G phone yesterday in Beijing, marking closer cooperation between the world’s biggest mobile phone maker and China Mobile, the world’s No. 1 mobile carrier.
Nokia, which now has produced models for all three 3G systems, has established a research team for TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access), a 3G [...]

Apple’s iPhone 3G to debut on Chinese mainland market on Oct. 30

Apple’s iPhone 3G will make its debut on the Chinese mainland market on October 30 as scheduled and aspiring users will have to sign a two-year contract with China Unicom, the country’s No. 2 telco said yesterday.
Getting users to sign a contract is one way for China Unicom to lure subscribers to its network and [...]

Page 1 of 15123456789»...Last »