BEIJING—China Unicom is expected to announce in the coming days that it will start CDMA services in January. The listed arm of the China Unicom Group is expected to lease provincial networks from its parent company.
BEIJING—Australia's Telstra and China Unicom have signed a memorandum of understanding to further explore business opportunities covering fixed and wireless services, including voice and data.Telstra hopes to exploit its experience offering telecom services for the 2000 Sydney Olympics in preparation for the Beijing Olympics...
BEIJING—Qualcomm expects that 4 million to 8 million CDMA-based handsets will be sold in China in 2002. Worldwide, the figure is forecasted to be 85 million to 95 million.A subsidiary of China Unicom is building a CDMA network with a capacity of 15.5 million...
TAMPA, Florida, United States—China Unicom signed a contract with Telecommunication Services Incorporated (TSI) to provide international CDMA roaming services, allowing China Unicom customers to roam on a number of CDMA networks across the Asia Pacific region, North America and Latin America.TSI said it will...
TAMPA, Fla.—China Unicom signed a contract with Telecommunication Services Inc. to provide CDMA international roaming services, allowing China Unicom customers to roam on a number of CDMA networks across the Asia Pacific region, North America and Latin America.TSI said it will provide clearinghouse services...
AlcatelChina. With China Mobile for GSM network expansion contracts by Shanghai Mobile and Jilin Mobile.Value: US$70 millionMalaysia. With Telekom Cellular to expand its existing GSM 1800 MHz capacity and ready it for GPRS.Value: US$85 millionPhilippines. With Digitel to roll out its mobile network by...
BEIJING—Beijing-based telecom consultancy BDA China released a report called "Mobile Data in China," which it claims is the most comprehensive analysis of the sector ever undertaken. According to BDA China, the country' s two mobile operators reported a combined total of 1.5 billion...
BEIJING—After months of prevarication, the Chinese government has decided to split the quasi-monopoly fixed-line operator China Telecom in two parts following geographical lines. Both the northern and southern split-offs of China Telecom may acquire mobile licenses, possibly next year. The northern part will merge...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it won a US$34.8 million contract from China Unicom to expand the carrier's 800 MHz CDMA networks in the Hebei province.In May, Motorola had won a US$407 million contract in 11 provinces in the country, including Beijing.
SHANGHAI, China—Lucent Technologies said it has demonstrated its first cdma2000 1x call for voice and data in China.Lucent said it is collaborating with China Unicom to demonstrate the mobile Internet services for visitors at a temporary exhibit center at the Shanghai Sofitel Hyland Hotel...
SHANGHAI, China—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has demonstrated its first cdma2000 1x call for voice and data in China.Lucent said it is collaborating with China Unicom to demonstrate the mobile Internet services for visitors at a temporary exhibit center at the Shanghai Sofitel Hyland...
BEIJING—Hong Kong-listed China Mobile (HK) and its parent company China Mobile Communications expect to have a combined 100 million subscribers by year-end. China Unicom, which is also listed in Hong Kong, and its parent company China United Telecommunications count on 50 million customers.China Unicom...
BEIJING—A plan, first floated by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), to eventually merge China Unicom and China Railcom has been put on hold and may not materialize for several years, if at all.During the past couple of years, China Unicom managed to grab...
BEIJING—China is set to establish a new high-level commission to formulate long-term development plans for the telecommunications sector. The commission would include Vice President Hu Jintao, Vice Premier Li Lanqing and Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan.The initiative would take power away from the...
BEIJING—Hong Kong listed China Unicom's first-half earnings surged to CNY2.19 billion (US$265 million), but fell short of analysts' predictions of CNY2.25 billion (US$272 million). Mother company China Unicom reported a CNY13.62 billion (US$1.65 billion) revenue, a 30-percent increase compared with last year.In the first-half...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Days after receiving approval from the Chinese government for its CDMA repeater technology, Repeater Technologies Inc. received an $11 million order to provide its OA850C Network Repeaters to Capitel Group Ltd. of Beijing for China Unicom.China Unicom is expected to use the repeaters...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Repeater Technologies Inc. was granted a Network Industry License by China's Ministry of Information Industry, allowing its OA850C Network Repeater to be used in China Unicom's CDMA network. The license affirms the compatibility of the equipment with the public network.The company's repeater received...
BEIJING, China-Amid slowing subscriber growth worldwide, China still shows a healthy increase in mobile-phone users. The country's two mobile-phone operators are each offering new services-one General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the other CDMA. Handset manufacturing is also soaring, with domestic suppliers narrowing the still...
AlcatelParis. With Orascom Telecom for the supply and installation of GSM solutions in the Middle East and Africa.Value: Undisclosed. Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800/GPRS network in Brazil.Value: US$275 millionMoscow. With ZAO SMARTS for GSM 900 MHz solutions to extend networks in the...
BOSTON, United States—The Yankee Group said CDMA technology is secure in China with a projected 55 million subscribers by the end of 2005 and China Unicom being the flagship operator of the technology.However, there will be challenges."As the only major operator in the world...
BEIJING—China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) issued the first network connection certificate for CDMA wireless intelligent network equipment to Zhongxing Telecom for its ZXC10-IN wireless IN-offering.The network equipment has been tested by Unicom Horizon Communications, the China Unicom subsidiary contracted to build a 15.5...
BEIJING—Motorola (China) and China Unicom recently signed a long-term cooperation agreement. Both companies want to cooperate on data communications, network optimization and unified management of the GSM and CDMA networks. They also view the handset market, branding and training as areas of cooperation.Since April...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications and SBC Communications Inc. held onto their respective first- and second-place rankings for profitability for 2000, according to research from Standard & Poor's.Deutsche Telekom-which was not listed on RCR Wireless News' stock chart in 2000 and therefore not among the major...
WASHINGTON-China, the world's largest potential wireless export market, is on the verge of entering the World Trade Organization as officials wrap up negotiations to culminate a process that has been 15 years in the making.WTO officials last week said talks on China's application for...
