China Mobile

LOS ANGELES – Analyst Chetan Sharma held the attention of his late-afternoon audience at this year’s HetNet Expo without even discussing small cells or DAS. An adviser to wireless players …

The companies work to launch a joint 5G testbed; test virtual slices optimized for IoT, virtual/augmented reality and other next-gen services South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom and Swedish vendor …

The three operators are finalizing leasing contracts with the new joint venture China’s three mobile operators – China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom – signed an agreement to transfer …

Nokia signs LTE-A deal with China Mobile LTE-Advanced is coming to China as Nokia prepares to roll out the technology it demonstrated this summer in partnership with China Mobile. LTE-A …

The two telcos are expected to complete the merger agreement by year-end Pakistani mobile operators Mobilink and Warid Telecom have agreed to merge their operations to create a mobile service …

Thai operator aims to reach 5,000 4G LTE base stations by end of 2016 Thai mobile operator Dtac plans to launch 4G LTE through 10 MHz of spectrum in the …

Hardware (and now service) provider also launches a new flagship smartphone Chinese smartphone and device company Xiaomi is now in the carrier business; reports indicate Xiaomi entered the mobile virtual …

Cavendish Kinetics, maker of tunable radio frequency micro-eletromechanical systems, has closed on $36 million in funding that it expects to use for advancing its technology a generation and developing RF …

LTE technology represents more than 23% of the operator’s overall mobile subscribers The world’s largest mobile telephony operator China Mobile ended the first half of 2015 with 189.6 million subscribers …

Court case in Berkeley; carrier aggregation in Europe, and Sprint’s network upgrade 5 things to know today: 1. Carriers have a lot riding on a California court case scheduled for …

China Mobile, Huawei and Qualcomm Technologies said they completed the commercial verification of TDD+ uplink data compression technology on a commercial LTE-TDD network. UDC is claimed to enable operators to …

Alcatel-Lucent’s Rapport software central to China Mobile VoLTE plans Alcatel-Lucent said the world’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile, was set to deploy its network functions virtualization-based Rapport communications software in …

China Mobile LTE expansion set to cover 60% of China’s population and 100M 4G LTE subscribers As China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the world, continues to expand its network, …

The Chinese company expects deployments to be completed by the end of 2015 or in early 2016 Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei was awarded the largest share of China Mobile’s …

VoLTE rollouts are supported by Huawei and Nokia Networks Two major telecom service providers last week announced the launch of commercial voice-over-LTE services. China Mobile in partnership with Huawei, and …

KDDI and China Mobile move forward on NFV PoC, SDN cloud deployments Proof-of-concepts continue to be a major focus of vendors and operators looking to test the bounds of virtualized …

China Mobile claims 220 Mbps peak data transmission rates achieved during demo SHANGHAI – China Mobile said it has carried out a demonstration inter-band LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation using spectrum in …

The Chinese company expects the solution to be commercially available in 2016 SHANGHAI – Huawei has launched its new TDD+ solution in collaboration with its industry partners China Mobile and …

China Telecom expects its FDD-LTE technology to cover 95% of China’s population by year end Chinese mobile telephony operator China Telecom aims to provide LTE coverage to 95% of the …

1-year deals valued at $1.3B; include NFV, SDN and cloud support Alcatel-Lucent signed a pair of contracts with China’s largest mobile operators to support the rollout of network functions virtualization, …

OPNFV Project now counts 60 member companies, adding Altera, Brain4 Net, CertusNet The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform Network Function Virtualization Project welcomed in a trio of new members this week, …

The world’s five largest wireless carriers account for roughly 2 billion mobile connections, according to the latest data from the World Cellular Information Service. China Mobile leads with 816 million customers, …

The operator aims to invest $400M in the next two to three years South East Asia Telecom has partnered with Chinese infrastructure provider ZTE to deploy a FDD-LTE network in Cambodia. Under the …

China Mobile and China Unicom are also slipping in value Shares of China Telecom slipped by about 5% this week after Zacks downgraded the stock to a “Sell” rating from …

A conversation with Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Download a transcript of the complete interview now as well as the complete updated report, “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, …