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 people switch to mobile phones. The company's paging subscribers fell by 6.2 million in the...
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 the memorandum signed last week, Sprint PCS will provide training and consulting to China...
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 LG Electronics would have a 49-percent stake.Although the company does not have a license...
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 interpreted as an attempt to counter the CDMA services of rival China Unicom.Subscriber growth...
BEIJING—The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced that the country added 16.69 million mobile-phone users in the first quarter of the year. There are now 160 million mobile-phone subscribers.At the end of March, telecom revenues were divided as follows: China Telecom 50.5 percent, China...
BEIJING—Reports of China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) indicate that China Mobile's revenue and market share account for 79.8 percent and 70.4 percent respectively of total Chinese mobile telecom revenues and market share, while China Unicom makes up 20.2 percent and 29.6 percent respectively.China...
BEIJING—Despite an official ban, China Mobile's subsidiary in southwestern Guizhou Province launched a trial run of a controversial calling-party-pays billing system. China is officially still using a two-way billing system, whereby the caller as well as the called party pay part of the call...
BEIJING—The Hong Kong-listed arm of China Unicom posted first-quarter revenue of 8.35 billion yuan (US$1 billion), while China Mobile reported 23.35 billion yuan (US$2.82 billion).Revenue from China Unicom's mobile business was 6.65 billion yuan (US$804 million) for the first three months of the year,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AB said it expanded its original CDMA equipment and services agreement with China Unicom under a $55 million contract. The contract covers seven provinces in China, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Sichuan, Yunnan, Henan, Heilongjiang and Liaoning, with deployment already completed.Ericsson is also conducting...
BEIJING—The boom times in China's mobile telecom sector seem to be over. While the country still added 5.9 million new mobile-phone subscribers in February, more than any other market, both China Mobile and China Unicom will cut planned infrastructure spending this year and next...
SEOUL, South Korea—CDMA operators LG Telecom of South Korea and Japan's KDDI Corp. said they have set up a "worldwide CDMA belt" through a technology and marketing cooperation.Under the plan, the two companies will ally with CDMA operators in Australia, China, India, Latin America,...
BEIJING—Following a three-month trial period, China Unicom launched commercial services on its CDMA network on 8 April.The trial period went less smoothly than the company had hoped, as it failed to convince potential customers of the advantages of CDMA over GSM. A lack of...
BEIJING—China Unicom's CDMA network registered 448,000 subscribers at the end of February. Only a paltry 9,000 users signed up in February. The vast majority of CDMA users were transferred from an existing network that Unicom took over from Great Wall Telecom, and brand new...
BEIJING—The China Unicom Group has received approval to issue A-shares, denominated in the local currency and reserved for Chinese citizens. The issue may take place in the coming months on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The company is expected to raise 12 billion...
HONG KONG—The Hong Kong mobile market is set for a transformation, with four third-generation (3G) mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) established, based on the requirements of Hong Kong’s four 3G license holders. The first 3G MVNO services are set to begin at the end...
BEIJING—China Unicom welcomed 439,000 subscribers on its new CDMA network last year, while the number of its GSM customers rose by 1.07 million to 28.1 million. Many of the CDMA customers were migrating from an existing network run by Great Wall Communications and do...
BEIJING—The TD-SCDMA technology jointly developed by China's Datang Telecom and Germany's Siemens has passed a trial test and is ready for commercial use within the year, according to Zhou Huan, chairman of Datang.However, neither China Mobile nor China Unicom have so far indicated that...
BEIJING—Only five of the 19 authorized vendors of CDMA handsets in China have released their models on the Chinese market. The latest was Datang, which launched its DT618 handset priced at 2,580 yuan (US$312). Motorola, Hisense, Haier and Eastcom are already selling CDMA handsets.Morgan...
BEIJING—China's Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan announced that China will set up four integrated telecom operators that will provide fixed-line, mobile, data and basic telecom services. In addition to China Mobile and China Unicom, two other operators will receive a mobile license within...
BEIJING, China—Smart cards solutions maker Gemplus said it has won a contract to supply its first live card-based CDMA network to China Unicom."The launch of smart cards for CDMA networks enables enhanced security features and value-added service provisioning for wireless carriers," said Gemplus. "It...
SHANGHAI—China Unicom Group announced it will launch China's first nationwide CDMA mobile phone network on December 31.A statement in a China newspaper said the network will operate in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
BEIJING—China Unicom expects nine out of the 19 firms licensed to produce CDMA handsets to be able to start production by the end of this year and be able to ship 19 million phones next year.Unicom hopes to recoup the investment in its CDMA...
BEIJING—China Unicom, which will launch commercial operations of its CDMA network early next year, hopes average revenue per user (ARPU) will be more than the 92 yuan (US$11.11) generated on its existing GSM network. ARPU dropped 25.5 percent in the first six months of...
BEIJING—The number of mobile-phone subscribers in China increased to 136 million in the first 10 months of the year. The country also has 175 million fixed-line subscribers.China Mobile's fixed-asset investment reached 55.5 billion yuan (US$6.7 billion), an increase of 54.2 percent compared with the...
