China Mobile

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. …

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 …

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 …

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), …

Alcatel Paris. 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Alcatel China. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a national network. Value: US$157 million China. With Gansu Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Ning Xia Mobile for GSM expansion contracts. Value: …

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 …

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 …

REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp., a provider of smart antenna solutions, has completed its SpotLight GSM smart antenna system field trial in Guangdong, China, with Guangdong Mobile, a subsidiary of China …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-China Mobile has awarded five contracts valued at $146 million to Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector to build GSM and GPRS networks in five provinces in China. …

China Mobile Communications Corp., the largest wireless operator in China, recently announced plans to create a wireless Internet setup much like NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode service in Japan, but the company …

Alcatel Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800 network in the area from Piau

NEW YORK-China Mobile Hong Kong does not need 3G to take advantage of opportunities in a populous country with rising per capita income and low penetration by personal computers and …

BEIJING-The complaint center of China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) last year received 6,588 complaints about phone services. Of the 1,025 cases it investigated, fixed-line operator China Telecom accounted for …

BEIJING-A spokesman for China Mobile said the company would further delay the one-way billing system beyond the proposed implementation period of early 2002, citing the “need for further research and …

BEIJING-China’s Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan told reporters at the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) that his ministry has no plans to issue new mobile licenses …

NEW DELHI, India- Tata Teleservices has become the first private basic service operator in India to provide limited mobility services using CDMA technology. The company operates in the Andhra Pradesh …

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens said it and Openwave were chosen by China Mobile Communications as the main suppliers to build out China Mobile’s WAP-based services in China. Siemens will provide the complete …

BEIJING-Guangzhou Mobile, the subsidiary of China Mobile in the southern city of Guangzhou, has started a new service whereby customers listen to commercials in exchange for the advertisers paying part …

WASHINGTON-Huawei Technologies Inc., a Chinese telecom firm that is quickly becoming a global wireless juggernaut, is reportedly suspected of violating U.N. sanctions by supplying Iraq with fiber optic cable to …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc and China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. announced a strategic alliance agreement that provides for close cooperation in many areas. The two companies first partnered last October. The …