BEIJING-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed an approximately $36 million contract to expand the GSM digital cellular network of China Mobile in Hebei province.Targeting about 1.8 million subscribers, the contract will introduce and implement both GPRS and EDGE to support the carrier's migration...
BEIJING-Fixed-line carrier China Netcom plans to launch its Little Smart or 'xiaolingtong' service in selected areas of China's capital Beijing in May, using UTStarcom equipment.Netcom plans to install 30 base stations in Beijing. Until recently, the Little Smart service had been confined to inland...
OSLO, Norway-Having taken a share-price beating early in the week, Ericsson's stock soared Thursday on the company's appointment of Carl-Henric Svanberg to replace Kurt Hellstr
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) estimates the production capacity of the 36 mobile-phone manufacturers in China will reach 250 million this year, up from 100 million last year, while sales are expected to reach 170 million handsets. Some analysts fear the world market...
BEIJING-China's number-two fixed-line carrier, China Netcom Communications Group, has ordered US$114 million worth of PHS equipment from California-based UTStarcom to expand its Little Smart or Xiaolingtong service in the provinces of Hebei, Shandong and Liaoning.Although the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) is trying to...
BEIJING-The Beijing Telecommunications Administration has fined China Unicom 300,000 yuan (US$36,245) for tariff violations related to promotional packages offered on the carrier's GSM network.China Unicom is allowed to offer a 10-percent discount compared with the prices of competitor China Mobile in a bid to...
BEIJING-Following strong opposition from cellular carriers China Mobile and China Unicom, fixed-line operator China Telecom discontinued a controversial service allowing users to forward incoming mobile calls to their fixed-line telephones by installing an inexpensive device.In China, mobile users pay for making calls as well...
BEIJING-Guangdong Telecom, a provincial subsidiary of fixed-line operator China Telecom, has launched a controversial call-forwarding service in three cities in Guangdong Province whereby mobile users can forward incoming calls to fixed-line phones without paying the called-party fee or the call-forwarding fee, which the mobile...
BEIJING-Following complaints from rival China Mobile, China Unicom is scaling back price cuts to attract customers to its CDMA service. The company promised to focus more on profitability and less on subscriber growth during the coming year.CDMA users should pay a minimum monthly charge...
BEIJING-Already the largest mobile-phone market in the world with more than 190 million subscribers at the end of September, China is gearing up to introduce third generation (3G) services on a trial basis sometime next year. But first, the government needs to make a...
BEIJING-According to Zhou Huan, president of Datang Telecom Technologies, co-developer with Siemens of the TD-SCDMA third-generation (3G) technology, the Chinese government has allocated broader spectrum resources for TD-SCDMA than for competing W-CDMA and cdma2000 technologies.China will pay less licensing fees to overseas technology owners...
BEIJING-In an interview with China Central Television (CCTV), Minister of Information Industry (MII) Wu Jichuan said it is not the right time for China to introduce more mobile-phone licenses. "It is necessary to introduce competition to the sector, but too much competition is harmful,"...
BEIJING-In China's biggest corporate debt sale, China Mobile issued 8 billion yuan (US$968 million) worth of fixed-rate bonds, divided into a 5 billion yuan (US$605 million) 15-year tranche and a 3 billion yuan (US$363 million) five-year tranche.The company is offering lower interest rates than...
BEIJING-Nokia has launched its new 7650 handset in China, just weeks after Sony Ericsson started selling its MMS-capableT68ie model. China Mobile will launch its MMS service in major Chinese cities later this month. Beginning next year, all Nokia handsets will be equipped with MMS...
BEIJING-Fixed-line carrier China Telecom received the green light from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for an initial public offering (IPO) worth US$3.4 million to US$4 billion. China Telecom is angling for a mobile license and is planning to use the proceeds of its IPO...
BEIJING-China Mobile plans to buy 300,000 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handsets to promote its multimedia messaging service (MMS), which the company will launch in the coming days, following a similar move by rival China Unicom, which has already bought hundreds of thousands of...
BEIJING-China Eastcom, one of China's 19 licensed CDMA handset manufacturers, has reached an agreement with carrier China Unicom to offer CDMA handsets to consumers at one-third of market prices. Its distribution arm Face One Telecommunications would price the handsets between 398 yuan (US$48.10) and...
BEIJING-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed a contract to supply an optical Ethernet solution to support the wireless networks of China Mobile in metropolitan Shanghai and Zhejiang province."Nortel Networks' solution will also enable the two China Mobile branches to implement storage area networking,...
BEIJING-China's largest mobile operator China Mobile Communication Corporation (CMCC) has awarded contracts to Ericsson to supply equipment for its multimedia messaging service (MMS) centers and peripherals in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Ericsson has supplied more than 80 MMS test systems worldwide and received orders...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and LM Ericsson announced a rash of multimedia messaging service deals, further solidifying the companies' leadership in the MMS infrastructure space.Nokia said it will provide its MMS product to Polish operator Polkomtel and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom, and Ericsson announced a similar...
BEIJING-The price war between China Mobile and China Unicom is heating up across the country, except in the big metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has mandated standard charges of a 50 yuan (US$6) monthly basic fee and...
BEIJING-China's largest personal computer vendor Legend Group has teamed with Intel and China Mobile to offer mobile wireless Internet services in 138 cities in China and broadband mobile Internet in the four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.Legend has developed a General Packet...
BEIJING-Nortel Networks said it signed a US$26.8 million GSM contract to supply China Mobile with equipment for the carrier's cellular network in the Shaanxi province.The equipment, which will include radio access and core switching equipment, is designed to increase network capacity and services, such...
BEIJING-Expansion of China's PHS network called Little Smart in the suburbs of Beijing and Tianjin has been put on hold by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), which fears a negative impact on the listed mobile-phone carriers China Mobile and China Unicom.Little Smart is...
