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 is part of the third phase of the carrier's LTE rollout. Nokia said it will...
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 provider with a presence in both the 3G and 4G segments, according to a report...
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 1,800 MHz band in October. The telco already offers 4G in Thailand using 5 MHz...
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 network operator space in the tightly regulated country.
Xiaomi will compete with China's big three carriers...
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 switches for a more efficient, simplified RF front end that can support the numerous bands that...
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 in the 4G segment, according to the operator’s latest financial results.
The telco recorded a net...
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 today. The city of Berkeley wants mobile phone retailers to share information about RF energy absorption...
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 maximize LTE-TDD uplink resources, increasing the number of uplink users and achieve compression efficiency for...
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 a move to consolidate the carrier’s video, voice and messaging services into a single platform,...
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, Ericsson has signed on as the radio equipment provider for a 14-province expansion of LTE...
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 voice-over-LTE project, which includes network convergence building and reconstruction across 31 provinces and municipalities in...
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 Vodafone Italy with partner Nokia Networks, are rolling out the high-definition voice feature.
As part of...
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 network components. The latest to join the PoC fray are Wind River and Japanese telecom...
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 3.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands that achieved peak speeds of 220 megabits per...
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 Japanese telecom operator SoftBank. The telecom equipment manufacturer announced the new tech at Mobile World...
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 country's population by the end of the year, according to local press reports. To achieve...
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, software-defined networking and cloud technology.
The one-year deals are valued at $727 million with China...
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, pushing the number of OPNFV Project supporters to 60 companies.
The latest to join the project...
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, making it the world's largest wireless carrier by far.
The World Cellular Information Service said...
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 terms of the agreement, ZTE will be the exclusive provider of end-to-end 4G solutions and products, including...
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 “Hold” rating on June 17.
In general, the stock has declined steadily over the past...
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, fronthaul and HetNets."
China Mobile has been at the forefront of C-RAN deployments and has a...
Qualcomm is helping two of China's biggest companies meet the demand for LTE. Huawei, China Mobile and Qualcomm said they have completed a commercial verification of LTE-TDD inter-band three-component carrier aggregation. Carrier aggregation refers to the combination of different spectrum bands to form a...
Wi-Fi Master Key connects users to any China Mobile hot spot
Wi-Fi Master Key, a mobile app developed in China that provides users with usernames and passwords to log into public networks, raised $50 million in a series A funding round.
Fortune reports on the funding,...
