China Mobile will use Nokia’s ‘worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) to offer enterprise customers IoT connectivity at home and abroad. Nokia’s WING service affords operators a way to offer cellular IoT services without having to invest in global infrastructure.
The deal, signed with China Mobile...
China has announced it has already installed nearly 700,000 5G base stations so far this year, exceeding the country’s original target of 500,000, South China Morning Post reported.
According to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) vice-minister Liu Liehong, this figure is more...
Huawei Technologies expects 5G users to account for 20% of total mobile users in China and South Korea by the end of June 2021, Ryan Ding, president of Huawei's carrier business group, said during a presentation at the company’s Global Mobile Broad Forum in...
China has already constructed over 690,000 5G base stations nationwide by the end of September, Chinese press reported citing information from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The government also said that subscribers using applications such as ultra-high definition video, cloud games and virtual...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added 44 million 5G subscribers in the third quarter of 2020, the carrier said in its earnings release.
The state-run telco said it ended September with a total of 114 million 5G subscribers, compared to...
China Tower’s business in the first three quarters of 2020 was positively impacted by the rapid deployment of 5G sites across China, the company said in its earnings release.
The company said that a total of 345,000 5G sites had been constructed in China as...
China Broadcasting Network Co. was established this week in Beijing, becoming the country's fourth mobile operator, with a registered capital of CNY101.2 billion ($15.1 billion), Chinese press reported.
China Broadcasting Network will provide 5G services in partnership with China Mobile, and is also expected to...
A total of 98,613 5G base stations have been built in major cities in China’s Guangdong region, Asia Times reported, citing a report published by the Guangdong province.
In the first eight months of 2020, Chinese carriers have deployed a total of 61,625 5G base...
Beijing has become the second city in China to achieve full coverage of 5G technology, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
As of the end of July, Chinese operators had installed a total of 44,000 5G base stations...
China Broadcasting Network Corp (CBN), a cable TV operator and a new entrant in China's telecom sector, has received investments of more than CNY100 billion ($14.5 billion) from 47 companies, including 11 new investors, Chinese press reported.
With the addition of these new Chinese investors,...
Chinese mobile operators had deployed a total of 32,681 5G base stations in Sichuan Province by July, state news agency Xinhua reported, citing an official report.
According to the report, total investments in 5G deployments in this province already reached CNY11.32 billion ($1.65 billion).
The report...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added 13.85 million 5G subscribers in July, the telco said on its website.
The operator said it ended July with a total of 84.05 million 5G subscribers, compared to 6.7 million 5G customers in January.
China...
More than 46,000 base stations supply 5G in Shenzhen
The municipal government of China’s Shenzhen announced that the city’s  5G deployment is fully completed.
This makes it the first city in China to to achieve full-scale 5G deployment.
The city had deployed 46,480 5G base stations, Mayor...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, had a total of 188,000 active 5G base stations across the country as of the end of June, the company’s chairman Yang Jie said in a presentation.
This network allowed the carrier to offer 5G...
China Tower’s business in the first half of 2020 was positively impacted by the acceleration of 5G deployments in China, the company said in its earnings release.
The telco said that a total of 215,000 5G sites had been constructed in the first half of...
Central China's Hunan Province has deployed a total of 13,586 5G base stations since 2019, and the number is expected to hit 22,000 by the end of this year, Chinese state new agency Xinhua reported.
In the first half of 2020, the province built 10,986...
China’s capital Beijing built a total of 5,135 5G base stations in the first half of this year, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
According to the report, Beijing will complete the construction of 13,000 5G base stations this year.
By June, the total number of 5G...
Chinese operators built a total of 257,000 new 5G base stations in the first half of the year, local news agency Xinhua reported, citing data from  the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The total number of 5G base stations in China had reached...
Guangdong approaching 15 million 5G subscribers
South China's Guangdong Province has already deployed more than 78,000 5G base stations as of the end of June, according to Chinese press reports.
In the first half of the year, the province completed the construction of 41,401 stations, according...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 14.4 million 5G subscribers in June, the telco said in its website.
The carrier said it ended the first half of 2020 with a total of 70.2 million 5G subscribers, compared to 6.7 million...
Indoor 5G deployment also a priority in Shanghai
Chinese carriers have already deployed over 20,000 5G base stations in Shanghai, Chinese press reported, citing Wu Jincheng, director of Shanghai Commission of Economy.
“By the end of May, we have built more than 20,000 base stations, which...
Chinese vendor ZTE is seeing a rapid migration to standalone (SA) 5G network in China, because local carriers are already upgrading their 5G networks to 5G SA, Chen Qiong, ZTE’s CTO of Multinational Tier 1 operator business unit, told RCR Wireless News.
“The evolution from...
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, plans to deploy 118,000 NB-IoT base stations across the country during 2020, taking the total to 350,000, Chinese news site C114.net reported.
China Mobile stopped adding new IoT connections to its 2G network as the...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, ended May with a total of 55. 6 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the company said in its website.
In May alone, the carrier added 11.86 million 5G subscribers. At the end of January,...
