SAN DIEGO, United States-Industry players trumpeted a range of new applications and technologies for Qualcomm's BREW download service in conjunction with the company's developer conference here, but some attendees also raised concerns about elements of the BREW system.Although Qualcomm released worldwide usage numbers for...
BEIJING-According to China Unicom's listed subsidiary's annual report, the company had a handset inventory worth 2.36 billion Chinese yuan (US$285 million) in 2002. The inventory would contain around 1 million CDMA 1x and older CDMA 95A handsets. The huge inventory is depressing the company's...
BEIJING-Wireless carrier China Unicom started offering prepaid CDMA cards in six provinces and the municipality of Chongqing 10 April. Use of the cards turns out to be significantly cheaper than regular CDMA service, with discounts ranging between 20 percent and 50 percent.The cards will...
BEIJING-China Unicom announced it had completed upgrading its CDMA network to CDMA 1x, enabling a host of new services, including multimedia messages and high-speed Internet access.The new CDMA 1x services will be marketed under the brand name U-Max. The U stands for Unicom, and...
BEIJING-China Unicom launched its cdma2000 1x service nationwide, according to a Qualcomm statement."With cdma2000 1x, China Unicom can offer its customers cost-effective, advanced voice and data wireless services, delivered by a wide range of feature-rich devices and applications," said Irwin Jacobs, chief executive officer...
BEIJING, China-China Unicom launched its cdma2000 1x nationwide in record time according to Qualcomm Inc."With cdma20001x, China Unicom can offer its customers cost-effective, advanced voice and data wireless services, delivered by a wide range of feature-rich devices and applications," said Irwin Jacobs, chief executive...
HERZLIYA, Israel-Israeli company CellTick Technologies said China Unicom will deploy its interactive broadcast system in XinJiang state.The platform allows operators to establish interactive communications with subscribers by using a mobile phone's control channel and enabling subscribers to receive continuous streams of content to handsets.
TOKYO-Access, a Tokyo-based embedded browser manufacturer, announced it will provide its flagship product NetFront version 3.0 for BREW-based handsets. Like JAVA, BREW is a platform that lets handset users download software onto handsets.Many world-leading mobile carriers, including KDDI, China Unicom and Verizon, have been...
BEIJING-China Mobile (Hong Kong), the listed arm of mobile carrier China Mobile Communications is to pay its first dividend since listing on the Hong Kong stock market in October 1997. The company's earnings rose 17 percent last year to 32.74 billion yuan (US$3.96 million)....
BEIJING-China's fixed-line operators have received approval from the all-powerful Ministry of Information Industry (MII) to roll out the "Little Smart" or "Xiaolingtong" PHS service nationwide.Until now the service was restricted to small and medium-sized cities or areas in the interior of China; the major...
HONG KONG-Microsoft Corp. and China Unicom signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the business model and technology for cdma2000 1x services on the carrier's network.Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Unicom President Wang Jianzhou reportedly signed the MoU."The presence of Microsoft enriches the CDMA...
SAN DIEGO, United States-Qualcomm increased its wireless footprint with announcements in China and Japan.In China, the CDMA proprietor signed a joint venture with China Unicom to foster the development of BREW-based CDMA wireless data applications, splitting the ownership between both companies."With the outstanding value-added...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. increased its wireless footprint with announcements in the United States, China and Japan.In China, the CDMA proprietor signed a joint venture with China Unicom to foster the development of BREW-based CDMA wireless data applications, splitting the ownership between both companies."With the...
The issue with U.S.-based Qualcomm has never been whether it has great technology, but whether its technology can make great market strides. Stalked by what industry watchers call either envy or sheer dominance of GSM-based technology, Qualcomm has had to combat GSM's increasing global...
BEIJING-Fixed-line carrier China Netcom plans to launch its Little Smart or 'xiaolingtong' service in selected areas of China's capital Beijing in May, using UTStarcom equipment.Netcom plans to install 30 base stations in Beijing. Until recently, the Little Smart service had been confined to inland...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. The event focused less on when wideband CDMA launches would occur in Europe and...
BEIJING-Qualcomm and China Unicom will jointly launch a GSM 1x trial in China's Suzhou in the second quarter of the year. The purpose is to enable China Unicom's GSM subscribers to enjoy the high-speed data transmission offered by its CDMA 1x service.If successful, the...
BEIJING-China mobile handset users sent close to 6 billion short message service (SMS) messages and more than 1 million multimedia message service (MMS) messages during the week-long Chinese New Year celebrations from 1-7 February. Sending short messages has become the primary way for young...
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) estimates the production capacity of the 36 mobile-phone manufacturers in China will reach 250 million this year, up from 100 million last year, while sales are expected to reach 170 million handsets. Some analysts fear the world market...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom, Korea's largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it has signed an agreement with China Unicom to establish a wireless Internet joint venture in China, marking what it calls "a major step" into the Chinese wireless market.SK Telecom will take a 49-percent...
BEIJING-The Beijing Telecommunications Administration has fined China Unicom 300,000 yuan (US$36,245) for tariff violations related to promotional packages offered on the carrier's GSM network.China Unicom is allowed to offer a 10-percent discount compared with the prices of competitor China Mobile in a bid to...
BEIJING-At year-end, China Unicom announced it had reached its target of 7 million CDMA users. The company also said it had built a CDMA 1x network in all provincial capital cities and economically important cities with the exception of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.In...
BEIJING-China Netcom and China Telecom, China's main fixed-line operators, are considering building wireless local loop (WLL) services based on the CDMA standard, but mobile operator China Unicom is expected to complain to the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) that it was designated the country's...
BEIJING-Following complaints from rival China Mobile, China Unicom is scaling back price cuts to attract customers to its CDMA service. The company promised to focus more on profitability and less on subscriber growth during the coming year.CDMA users should pay a minimum monthly charge...
