China Unicom Ltd. (CHU) said it added 2.126 million customers in July, pushing its total customer base to more than 183.7 million subscribers. The carrier remains the second largest operator in China, well behind China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) and its more than 616 million...
China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) continued to show strong customer growth and solid gains in its 3G operations and accompanying data services during the first half of the year.The carrier said it added more than 32 million new customers during the first six months of...
China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) has set up a $780 million finance unit that the world’s largest wireless operator said would be used to “further strengthen the internal funds management and better control liquidity risks, and to fully and better leverage the advantages on capital...
With more than 5.3 billion mobile connections across the globe, the wireless industry continues to chase worldwide saturation.To the surprise of few, the world's most populous nations – China and India – are also the world's largest mobile markets. China continued to lead the...
Bloomberg | July 31, 2011
China Mobile Ltd. (941) will cut international roaming fees charged for 38 countries and regions by as much as 80 percent starting tomorrow, Caijing said today on its website, citing a company announcement.
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RCR Wireless News rounds up the week's latest news, including a report in the Shanghai Daily that says China Mobile will get the Apple Inc. iPhone sometime this fall. Meanwhile, China search engine giant Baidu reached a licensing agreement with three U.S. music companies...
TellabsFrance: With French broadband Internet service provider CELESTE to exclusively provide the nationwide optical transport network in order to expand its high performance and high bandwidth fiber optic network to all major cities in France.Value: UndisclosedNokia Siemens Networks China: With China Mobile has successfully...
Penn Olson | June 27, 2011 | Willis Wee
Mobile advertising expenditure is rocketing around the world, but nowhere like it is in China. Citing eMarketer, Chinese Internet research firm iResearchproduced a graph showing rising mobile spending in China. By 2015, the figure will hit a whopping $1.4...
Market Intelligence Center | June 27, 2011
China Mobile Ltd (NYSE: CHL) closed Friday’s trading session at $47.03. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $43.51 and 52-week high of $54.70. China Mobile (CHL) stock has been showing support...
GUANGHZOU, China – Transformation. The phrase was an overarching theme during a couple of events here as operators and equipment vendors evolve to meet challenges that arise from a fast-paced wireless industry where devices and applications are taking center stage, forcing the world's largest...
Published reports indicate that China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (CHA) is looking to add Apple Inc.'s iPhone to its lineup in an attempt to remain competitive in the Chinese market. According to a Reuters report, China's No. 3 operator has contacted Apple about selling the...
North Korea’s only 3G operator has reported the number of 3G mobile subscriptions in the country has surpassed half a million.
The number represents a landmark for the company since it hit something of a peak in 2009, and was forced to rethink its strategy...
China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) is looking towards international expansion into emerging markets similar to an investment it made last year in Pakistan, according to a Reuters report.According to the Reuters story, China Mobile's chairman, Wang Jianzhou told investors at a conference in Hong Kong...
According to Market Watch, rumor has it that China Mobile Ltd. has indeed come to a consensus with Apple Inc. on using its fourth-generation technology on iPhones in the China Mobile network. The company’s chairman Mr. Wang Jianzhou claims the talks are ongoing and Apple...
Apple was crowned king of brand values with the top slot as Round Rock-based Dell Inc. plummeted from the 2011 list this year.
Tech companies and telecoms did well on the new ranking of brand values by global agency Millward Brown Inc. Apple climbed a...
Those who have been waiting impatiently for Apple to unveil the iPhone 5, complete with LTE support, will be sorely disappointed according to sources who say the new phone will be nothing but a minor update with HSPA+ thrown in.
AT&T Inc.'s (T) image may have been shaken domestically by troubled iPhone connections, but the company's brand has never been stronger worldwide, according to a retail ranking conducted by marketing firm Millward Brown.The ranking found that the AT&T brand is worth nearly $70 billion,...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) narrowed its first-quarter loss driven by strong wireless sales in North America. However, the company's stock slid nearly 5% in trading as analysts worried the infrastructure provider needs more contracts outside North America. The stock price was improving at press time,...
Alcatel-Lucent scored a pair of Chinese victories with subsidiaries of China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) and China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (CHA) announcing plans to deploy the company’s 9900 Wireless Network Guardian equipment in their 3G network and operation centers.
The equipment provider reported that Jiangsu Mobile...
In the highest ranking of businesses on the Forbes report of the top 2,000 publicly traded companies worldwide, Dallas-based AT&T Corp. (T) landed at No. 14 and Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) cruised in at No. 182.
AT&T reported sales of $124.3 billion, profits of...
In the highest ranking of businesses on the Forbes report of the top 2,000 publicly traded companies worldwide, Dallas-based AT&T Corp. (T) landed at No. 14 and Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) cruised in at No. 182.
AT&T reported sales of $124.3 billion, profits of...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and China Mobile (CHL) are working together to further develop technology around Acatel-Lucent's LightRadio technology, which shrinks base-station technology down to the size of a Rubik's Cube by moving some of the intelligence in the hardware to the cloud.Under a...
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At the end of 2010, China had 457 million Internet users and 303 million mobile...
ZTE Corp., the second-largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in China, announced net profits for the first quarter grew by 16% to $19.37 million and reported a 14% increase in operating revenue to $2.3 billion for the first quarter of the year, ending on March 31.The...
