SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said it has signed an agreement to create a joint venture with China Unicom to foster the growth of a BREW developer community in China."The BREW solution gives Chinese developers a complete blueprint for building applications and generating revenues-the joint...
BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has replaced 65 of China Unicom's CDMA base stations with cdma2000 1x technology in a day in Shanghai province.The swap-out took place swiftly to avoid service disruption, and the equipment was configured to reduce overall call-drop rates by 20...
BEIJING-Hong Kong- and New York-listed China Unicom has acquired nine GSM networks from its parent company at a cost of CNY22.5 billion (US$2.72 billion). The carrier will pay CNY4.8 billion (US$580 million) in cash and take over CNY17.7 billion (US$2.17 billion) of debt from...
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 to avoid service disruption and the equipment was configured to reduce overall call-drop rate by...
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 a trial basis sometime next year. But first, the government needs to make a...
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 competing W-CDMA and cdma2000 technologies.China will pay less licensing fees to overseas technology owners...
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 release the value of the contracts."This new cdma2000 network will enable Reliance to offer...
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 14 October, China United Telecommunications announced in Beijing that the number of its...
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 5 months to reach the 1 million mark on June 10, a much slower...
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 to reach the 1 million mark on 10 June, a much slower growth than...
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 for a mobile license and is planning to use the proceeds of its IPO...
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 similar move by rival China Unicom, which has already bought hundreds of thousands of...
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 the city of Chongqing.The upgrade also will enable China Unicom to offer new wireless...
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 that hold CDMA licenses. Among the 19, Motorola is the only foreign company.Staffan Soderqvist,...
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, following oil giant Sinopec. The A shares are reserved for Chinese citizens, who for...
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 distribution arm Face One Telecommunications would price the handsets between 398 yuan (US$48.10) and...
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 period last year, when profits amounted to 2.19 billion yuan (US$265 million).Most analysts had...
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 (MII) has mandated standard charges of a 50 yuan (US$6) monthly basic fee and...
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 going to provide MMS software for 19 handset manufacturers that provide CDMA 1x-based handsets...
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 would halt its promotion soon, but Shanghai Unicom vowed to continue the price cuts. Both...
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) said the use of wireless data services is not significant yet.Nevertheless, China Mobile has...
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 15.9 billion last year. Customers of rival China Unicom sent 3 billion messages last...
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 network started commercial operations on 8 January, almost six months ago but has managed...
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 high-end alternative for rival China Mobile's and the company's own GSM services, but consumers...
