AlcatelChina. With China Mobile for GSM network expansion contracts by Shanghai Mobile and Jilin Mobile.Value: US$70 millionMalaysia. With Telekom Cellular to expand its existing GSM 1800 MHz capacity and ready it for GPRS.Value: US$85 millionPhilippines. With Digitel to roll out its mobile network by...
BEIJING—In accordance with international practice, China Mobile (HK) is to issue quarterly reports in an effort to further improve its transparency. Up to now, the company only reported to stockholders on a six-monthly and yearly basis.Total revenue for an incomplete third quarter from 30...
BEIJING—China Mobile (HK) announced it had enough cash and the potential for debt financing to purchase additional networks from its parent company without issuing new shares. Investors are worried that issuing new shares would lead to share dilution.China Mobile (HK) raised US$6.6 billion in...
BEIJING—Beijing-based telecom consultancy BDA China released a report called "Mobile Data in China," which it claims is the most comprehensive analysis of the sector ever undertaken. According to BDA China, the country' s two mobile operators reported a combined total of 1.5 billion...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens said China Mobile selected it as a major supplier to expand its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based mobile Internet services in nine provinces in China. The entire project will be completed in November, Siemens said.The implementation of the GPRS system will be...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens said China Mobile selected it as a major supplier to expand its GPRS-based mobile Internet services in nine provinces in China. The entire project will be completed in November, Siemens said.The implementation of the GPRS system will be completed by Siemens Shanghai...
BEIJING—Hong Kong-listed China Mobile (HK) and its parent company China Mobile Communications expect to have a combined 100 million subscribers by year-end. China Unicom, which is also listed in Hong Kong, and its parent company China United Telecommunications count on 50 million customers.China Unicom...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it will expand its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) solution as part of a nationwide project for China Mobile Communications' network.The network will begin operation in the fourth quarter of 2001, according to the company.
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has begun supplying its GPRS solution as part of a nationwide project for China Mobile Communications Co.'s network.The network will begin operation in the fourth quarter of 2001, according to the company.
BEIJING—Motorola said it has signed a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) end-to-end contract to expand China Mobile networks for an undisclosed amount in seven major Chinese provinces and municipalities.The deal, which also includes the supply of GPRS support equipment from Cisco Systems, allows Motorola...
BEIJING—Officials at the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) indicated they may issue up to three new mobile-phone licenses to offer increased competition to the current two operators, China Mobile and China Unicom.MII is expected to issue third-generation (3G) licenses at the end of 2002...
BEIJING—Twenty million of China's 123 million mobile-phone users regularly use short message service (SMS) to send each other text messages. China Mobile, the country's biggest operator, predicted that 10 billion messages will be sent this year.Sending an SMS is four times cheaper than a...
PARIS—Alcatel said it won two separate GSM network expansion contracts with China Mobile subsidiaries valued at US$70 million total.Shanghai Mobile's eighth GSM expansion will include Alcatel's Evolium series products. In addition, Alcatel will implement the second phase of Jilin Mobile's sixth network expansion covering...
BEIJING—Beijing Mobile, a unit of China Mobile, said it plans to raise its call forwarding rates because of high interconnection costs.According to Reuters, China Mobile users pay high costs to receive and place calls, so many forward calls to offices or homes to dodge...
BEIJING—Spokesman Wang Lijian of China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) confirmed that China would not introduce one-way billing for mobile-phone charges before the end of this year.The 21st Century Business Herald had reported that China Mobile would introduce one-way billing in Beijing and Shanghai.Introduction...
BEIJING, China-Amid slowing subscriber growth worldwide, China still shows a healthy increase in mobile-phone users. The country's two mobile-phone operators are each offering new services-one General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the other CDMA. Handset manufacturing is also soaring, with domestic suppliers narrowing the still...
AlcatelParis. With Orascom Telecom for the supply and installation of GSM solutions in the Middle East and Africa.Value: Undisclosed. Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800/GPRS network in Brazil.Value: US$275 millionMoscow. With ZAO SMARTS for GSM 900 MHz solutions to extend networks in the...
BEIJING—The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is planning to give the go-ahead to China Mobile to become the first issuer of China Depositary Receipts (CDRs). China Mobile (HK) is presently traded on the Hong Kong and New York Stock Exchanges in foreign currency. The...
BEIJING—China Mobile (HK), the Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of China Mobile Communications based in Beijing, reported a 58.3-percent increase in net profits to CNY13.8 billion (US$1.67 billion) during the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year.Brokerages were, however, disappointed...
BEIJING—Telecommunications analyst Wallace Cheung of DBS Equities Research told Hong Kong's South China Morning Post he expects China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) to grant two new second-generation (2G) mobile-phone licenses in the second half of next year, when the ministry will also issue...
BEIJING—China's second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, launched its Uni-Info wireless data service on 1 August. The carrier will charge customers a connection fee and will transfer a content fee to the service provider offering the content, such as China's top three portals Sina,...
AlcatelChina. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a national network.Value: US$157 millionChina. With Gansu Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Ning Xia Mobile for GSM expansion contracts.Value: UndisclosedThailand. With CP Orange for a nationwide GSM 1800 MHz network.Value: US$332 millionDatangChina. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a...
After a year in which its global customer base increased from 53 million customers to a staggering 83 million customers, U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc said it will turn its attention this year from rounding up more subscribers to making money off the ones it...
In the United States, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed telephone companies to deliver video programming and cable companies to provide phone service. But even though the 1996 telecom act opened up competition, the United States' $100 billion telephone industry still had some big...
