BEIJING-China's largest wireless operator China Mobile selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to expand its GSM network in Shaanxi Province as part of a $26.8 million contract.The expansion is expected to include GSM radio access and core switching equipment in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province.
BEIJING-China Mobile (HK), the Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of China Mobile Communications, had 80.3 million subscribers at the end of June. More than 34.6 million were contract subscribers, and 45.69 million had bought prepaid cards.Shares of China Mobile (HK) have fallen 7.8 percent during the...
BEIJING-The Shanghai Telecommunications Administration has urged the local subsidiaries of China Mobile and China Unicom to end a price war they are waging through promotional offers.Shanghai Mobile said it would halt its promotion soon, but Shanghai Unicom vowed to continue the price cuts. Both...
BEIJING-Following the launch of its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services on 17 May, China Mobile Communications has signed 1.3 million users, but a spokesman for China Mobile (Hong Kong) said the use of wireless data services is not significant yet.Nevertheless, China Mobile has...
BEIJING-Li Yue, vice president of China Mobile, announced at the GSM China 2002 conference that China Mobile's customers are expected to send 50 billion short messages this year, up from 15.9 billion last year. Customers of rival China Unicom sent 3 billion messages last...
BEIJING-China Mobile Communications announced it will invest 50 billion yuan (US$6 billion) in mobile-phone infrastructure in the western part of China during the next three years. During the past three years, the company has already invested 54 billion yuan (US$6.5 billion) in upgrading and...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Motorola Inc. said it has signed four contracts totaling $100.8 million to expand and upgrade GSM networks for China Mobile Communications Corporation.The contracts, which will cover GSM 900 MHz and 1800 MHz networks in provinces, such as Hubei and Yunnan, and cities,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AB said it is joining Juniper Networks to deploy what it described as the first commercial multi-protocol Label Switching-based virtual private network for China Mobile Communications in nine cities in China.Ericsson's AXI 520 series IP backbone routers, which will be based on...
BEIJING—Siemens IC Mobile is collaborating with China Mobile to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and short message service (SMS) services to inform subscribers when goals are made in the FIFA World Cup 2002 soccer competition. Game reports, team profiles, quizzes and greeting cards will...
BEIJING—China Mobile (Hong Kong) will reap goodwill of around 40.3 billion yuan (US$4.87 billion) following the pending acquisition of eight provincial mobile networks from parent China Mobile Communications. China Mobile (HK) will pay US$8.57 billion for the networks.The company plans to amortize the goodwill...
BEIJING—The world's largest mobile market could become decidedly less attractive for cell-phone manufacturers if new proposed rules on cell-phone radiation emissions come into play.A proposed change would restrict the maximum specific absorption rate in China to 1 watt per kilogram compared with 1.6 watts...
BEIJING—The Hebei provincial subsidiary of China Mobile has chosen Nortel Networks to expand the capacity of its GSM network in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang and surrounding areas with 322,000 subscribers. The provincial total now adds up to a capacity of 6.8 million subscribers.Nortel Networks...
TOKYO—NEC, the leading handset maker in Japan, announced that it shipped 2.5-generation (2.5G) handsets for China Mobile. China Mobile is the largest mobile carrier in China with 115 million subscribers.China Mobile launched data service based on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology last week....
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc said it increased it ownership of China Mobile Hong Kong to 3.27 percent from 2.18 percent by subscribing US$750 million for new ordinary shares in the Chinese operator. China Mobile will use the proceeds to help finance its proposed acquisition of...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Both Nokia and Ericsson said they have demonstrated what they described as the first inter-operator live demonstration of multimedia messaging service (MMS) technology with leading Chinese operators.Ericsson demonstrated its technology using its Sony Ericsson T68I handset in Guangzhou over the networks of China...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Both Nokia Corp. and Ericsson AB said they have demonstrated what they described as the first inter-operator live demonstration of Multimedia Messaging Service technology with leading Chinese operators.Ericsson demonstrated its technology using its Sony Ericsson T68I handset in Guangzhou over the networks of...
BEIJING—The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced that the country added 16.69 million mobile-phone users in the first quarter of the year. There are now 160 million mobile-phone subscribers.At the end of March, telecom revenues were divided as follows: China Telecom 50.5 percent, China...
BEIJING—Despite an official ban, China Mobile's subsidiary in southwestern Guizhou Province launched a trial run of a controversial calling-party-pays billing system. China is officially still using a two-way billing system, whereby the caller as well as the called party pay part of the call...
BEIJING—The Hong Kong-listed arm of China Unicom posted first-quarter revenue of 8.35 billion yuan (US$1 billion), while China Mobile reported 23.35 billion yuan (US$2.82 billion).Revenue from China Unicom's mobile business was 6.65 billion yuan (US$804 million) for the first three months of the year,...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Proxim Corp. said it has signed a memorandum of understanding to sell $8 million of its fixed wireless communications equipment to Chinese vendor Eastcom."Our agreement with Eastcom will help us to expand our growing business in China, particularly by introducing our wireless products...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Singapore Telecom (SingTel) embraced its Asian subsidiaries, Australia's Optus and the Philippines' Globe Telecom, to set up new roaming services for data communications. Later this year, it plans to announce similar agreements with its additional Asian subsidiaries, including PT Telkomsel in Indonesia in...
BEIJING—The boom times in China's mobile telecom sector seem to be over. While the country still added 5.9 million new mobile-phone subscribers in February, more than any other market, both China Mobile and China Unicom will cut planned infrastructure spending this year and next...
BEIJING—China's dominant mobile-phone carrier, China Mobile, signed an agreement with U.S. wholesale telecom carrier ITXC to exchange international phone traffic over ITXC.net, ITXC's global Internet-based telecommunications network.ITXC.net has points of presence in 152 countries.The agreement is expected improve the quality of China Mobile's international...
BEIJING—China Mobile Communications reported a net profit of 45.5 billion yuan (US$5.5 billion) for 2001. Its listed subsidiary China Mobile (Hong Kong) said its net profit reached 28 billion yuan (US$3.38 billion), 55 percent more than in 2000, but the company did not declare...
