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BEIJING, China-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has replaced 65 of China Unicom’s CDMA base stations with cdma2000 1x in a single day in Shanghai province. The swap-out took place swiftly …

BEIJING-Already the largest mobile-phone market in the world with more than 190 million subscribers at the end of September, China is gearing up to introduce third generation (3G) services on …

BEIJING-According to Zhou Huan, president of Datang Telecom Technologies, co-developer with Siemens of the TD-SCDMA third-generation (3G) technology, the Chinese government has allocated broader spectrum resources for TD-SCDMA than for …

MURRAY HILL, N.J. -Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed separate contracts with two Indian operators, Reliance Infocom and Tata Teleservices, to deploy nationwide cdma2000 wireless networks. Lucent did not …

BEIJING-China Unicom’s aggressive promotion of its CDMA network is continuing to bear fruit. In the fortnight around China’s National Day of 1 October, the company signed 700,000 new users. On …

BEIJING-The subscriber growth of China Unicom’s CDMA network is gaining momentum. Since launching the network in January this year, initial subscriber growth was sluggish. It took the company more than …

BEIJING-The subscriber growth of China Unicom’s CDMA network is gaining momentum. After launching the network in January, initial subscriber growth was sluggish. It took the company more than 5 months …

BEIJING-Fixed-line carrier China Telecom received the green light from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for an initial public offering (IPO) worth US$3.4 million to US$4 billion. China Telecom is angling …

BEIJING-China Mobile plans to buy 300,000 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handsets to promote its multimedia messaging service (MMS), which the company will launch in the coming days, following a …

Beijing-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed a $40 million contract to expand GSM wireless networks in the autonomous regions of Xinjiang Uygur and Ningxia Hui, the Shanxi province and …

BEIJING-Sony Ericsson is considering applying for a CDMA handset manufacturing license in China. If a new license is unavailable, the company may team with one of the 19 handset makers …

BEIJING-China United Telecommunications Corporation launched its 11.5 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) domestic initial public offering (IPO), the largest ever in China by number of shares and the second-largest in value, …

BEIJING-China Eastcom, one of China’s 19 licensed CDMA handset manufacturers, has reached an agreement with carrier China Unicom to offer CDMA handsets to consumers at one-third of market prices. Its …

BEIJING-China’s number-two mobile operator, China Unicom, reported a profit increase of 2.7 percent in the first half of the year to 2.25 billion yuan (US$272 million) compared with the same …

BEIJING-The price war between China Mobile and China Unicom is heating up across the country, except in the big metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The Ministry of Information Industry …

TOKYO-Access, a Tokyo-based venture, announced it concluded an agreement with China Unicom to provide multimedia messaging service (MMS) software to China’s second-largest mobile operator. Based on the agreement, Access is …

BEIJING-The Shanghai Telecommunications Administration has urged the local subsidiaries of China Mobile and China Unicom to end a price war they are waging through promotional offers. Shanghai Mobile said it …

BEIJING-Following the launch of its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services on 17 May, China Mobile Communications has signed 1.3 million users, but a spokesman for China Mobile (Hong Kong) …

BEIJING-Li Yue, vice president of China Mobile, announced at the GSM China 2002 conference that China Mobile’s customers are expected to send 50 billion short messages this year, up from …

BEIJING-A story in the Chinese language Economic Daily on 27 June analyzed the advantages of CDMA, but none had anything to do with benefits for end users. China Unicom’s CDMA …

BEIJING-Mobile-phone operator China Unicom has introduced promotional offers in at least 10 Chinese cities to attract subscribers to its fledgling CDMA network. Unicom originally positioned its CDMA services as a …

BEIJING—China Unicom plans to significantly upgrade its paging service with new information and data services, such as e-mail. The number of paging subscribers in China is constantly dropping as more …

HONG KONG—Sprint PCS and China Unicom have formed a strategic alliance for cdma2000 services, Sprint PCS’ Bill Blessing told attendees Wednesday at the 3G World Congress here. As part of …

BEIJING—South Korea’s LG Electronics hopes to sell 128,000 CDMA handsets to China Unicom this year. It plans to produce CDMA handsets in a joint venture with Shandong Langchao, in which …

BEIJING—China Mobile is to formally launch its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) nationwide on 17 May under the brand name Monternet. The service, offering high-speed Internet and e-mail, could be …