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 second-generation wireless, said Wang Xiaochu, chairman and chief executive officer of the company.At the...
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 732, while China Mobile received 163 complaints and China Unicom 67.China Telecom until very...
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 complicated technical adjustments."The new billing system could sharply reduce revenues, triggering lower stock prices...
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 this year.Only two operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, are licensed to operate mobile...
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 telecom circle and is one of six private operators licensed in six circles two...
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 WAP solution using Openwave's WAP-compatible UP.LinkServer technology.Initially, capacity is expected to be for about...
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 of their phone bills.Users must dial a toll-free number to access the ad channel....
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 improve its air defense capability.The Washington Post, citing Western and Asian sources, said Western...
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 agreement does not include a further equity interest by Vodafone, which purchased 2 percent of...
BEIJING-While China's mobile-phone subscribers nearly doubled to 85.26 million last year, the country's paging manufacturers and operators fought a rearguard battle. With continuing price drops in handsets and mobile services, more pager users are switching to mobile phones.The number of subscribers at China's major...
BEIJING-Huawei Technologies, based in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, is poised to become a global player in the telecommunications field. Already China's largest producer of telephone switches, the company is now branching out into the mobile field and aggressively moving abroad. While privately owned,...
GSM Europe, the European arm of the GSM Association, met new proposals from the European Commission (EC) covering how telecom operators will be regulated with hostility. The group claimed the proposals will significantly increase the chances of EC intervention in many aspects of the...
AlcatelEgypt. With MobiNil for an extension of its GSM network.Value: US$37.1 millionFrance. With Cegetel for the supply of a UMTS network.Value: UndisclosedEricssonCanada. With Rogers AT&T Wireless for a 3G network, including a complete GSM/GPRS network infrastructure and migrating the network to EDGE and UMTS.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With Optimus...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. won two GSM infrastructure contracts valued at $13 million from China Mobile Communication Corp. to expand its networks in two major cities in Heilongjiang Province in China.In other news, DMC Stratex Networks announced it received contracts totaling approximately $4 million...
HELSINKI, Finland-Phone maker Nokia Corp. has signed deals with China's Yunnan Mobile Communications Co. and the Beijing and Hubei branches of China Mobile Communications Corp.Nokia agreed to a $160 million contract to deliver GSM 900 MHz and GSM 1800 MHz network expansion to YMCC,...
BEIJING-China's mobile communications market made big strides forward during 2000. The number of GSM subscribers leapt to more than 70 million, with a penetration rate of 5.5 percent.China Unicom debuted on the stock market and reconfirmed its intention to build out a CDMA network....
AirNetUnited States. With MBO for a GPRS system.Value: UndisclosedAlcatelGambia. With Gamtel for a turnkey GSM network to be installed in the greater Banjul area.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for a high speed mobile data service on its GPRS commercial network.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for UMTS technology in the...
BEIJING-According to Beijing-based consultancy BDA, reports of the death of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in China have been greatly exaggerated, as 69 million people in China will be accessing the Internet over their mobile phones by 2004. China Mobile will begin charging fees...
BEIJING-At an extraordinary general meeting on 10 November, China Mobile (Hong Kong) shareholders approved the company's plan to purchase seven networks from its parent, China Mobile Communications, for US$32.84 billion. The company's profit is expected to increase 2.6 percent per subscriber after the acquisition.According...
BEIJING-China Mobile (Hong Kong) is negotiating with China Telecom to cut the leased-line fees it pays by one-half. About 90 percent of China Mobile (Hong Kong)'s transmission lines are leased from China Telecom.Total leased-line expenses for 1999 were CNY3.72 billion (US$450 million). The company...
BEIJING-Inktomi announced China Mobile will integrate its Traffic Server network cache platform within its national Internet Protocol Backbone for delivery of wireless content and services.China Mobile will deploy the platform to manage increasing mobile Internet traffic and conserve bandwidth by storing information close to...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Global Telecom Solutions Sector won another large stake in China's mobile phone market with a $29 million GSM communications award covering about 370,000 people in the Zhejiang Province.The first award, which was $53 million, came in June.The recent deal calls...
China Mobile began charging for wireless Internet services beginning 21 October after twice delaying the date due to slack demand for the services, particularly by many industry professionals.However, Frost & Sullivan believes wireless Internet is exactly what the Chinese people are looking for, and...
