Bad news hit the cdmaOne community last week as the South Korean government put a stop to cdmaOne handset subsidies and uncertainty lingered about China Unicom's plans to deploy the technology.Though technology stocks across the board took a hit last week, Qualcomm Inc.'s stock...
HONG KONG-China Unicom Ltd., China's second-largest telecommunications provider, is planning an initial public offering in June on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges. China Unicom is expected to raise about $4 billion through the offering.The listing essentially means the China-China-foreign arrangements, which...
Part of China Unicom Ltd.'s initial public offering in June of between $4 billion and $5 billion is scheduled to be used to fund the company's $12.1 billion in capital expenditures planned through 2002, a merchant banking source told Reuters.The offering and spending plan...
China Unicom's planned deployment of Code Division Multiple Access technology remains delayed as Unicom works on sorting out the paper work with both the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Development Planning Commission, vendors in China say.Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji recently told reporters...
FinlandL.M. Ericsson will supply a fully integrated solution for a third-generation Global System for Mobile communications system, including the company's General Packet Radio Service system, to Finish operator Alands Mobiltelefon Ab. The contract includes a mobile network solution integrating GSM and 3G with Ericsson...
BEIJING-China Unicom and Qualcomm signed a landmark agreement in February, paving the way for Chinese manufacturers to get CDMA production licenses. Unicom wants to build a 10 million-line CDMA network this year and is evaluating 12 bidders to supply the equipment.But barely a week...
AlcatelChina. For GSM network extensions in Jilin, Zhejiang, Ningxia and Shaanxi provinces.Value: US$80 millionGermany. With T-Mobil for a network extension.Value: US$71.2 millionKosovo. With the Kosovo Post Office and Telecommunications for a GSM Network with a 30,000 capacity.Value: UndisclosedSri Lanka. With Celltel Lanka for a GSM network contract...
SAN DIEGO-China United Telecommunications Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. announced an agreement outlining guidelines for Chinese manufacturers to license Qualcomm's intellectual property to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access wireless equipment.The deal stipulates that Chinese manufacturers that enter into such licenses with Qualcomm will...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Digital Microwave Corp. announced it has received $5 million in orders from two companies in the Peoples' Republic of China. The orders, $3.5 million from China Unicom for the company's Altium and Spectrum II radios and $1.5 million from Hebei...
AlcatelCameroon. With Societe Camerounaise de Mobiles (SCM) for a GSM network for the area between the cities of Yaounde, Douala and Bafoussam.Value: US$21.15 millionChina. With Post and Telecommunications Administration of Hubei province for DECT wireless local loop systems.Value: US$20 millionMozambique. With Telecomunicacoes Moeis de Mocambique for...
BEIJING-China's two telecom operators-big brother China Telecom and little brother China Unicom-soon will face the competitive onslaught of foreign heavyweights such as AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and WorldCom.After China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO), expected some time during the first half of the year,...
China's on-again, off-again plan to allow commercial deployments of Code Division Multiple Access networks looks like it's on again.The recent World Trade Organization pact between the United States and China and progress in negotiations over technology transfers appear to have paved the way for...
BEIJING-Nortel Networks announced that its joint venture, Guangdong Nortel Telecommunications Equipment Ltd., was awarded contracts valued at $64 million by China Unicom and Anhui Mobile Communications Corp. The contracts are for new Global System for Mobile communications network construction in the Henan and Anhui...
WASHINGTON-As the Clinton administration scrambles to strike a deal on China membership in the World Trade Organization before the start of a global trade conference later this month in Seattle, it appears that major telecom concessions made here in April by Chinese Prime Minister...
The Chinese government announced it will enforce regulations announced last year requiring all foreign-manufactured mobile phones and other telecommunications equipment to carry a government-issued seal indicating authenticity. The government said the move will help it reduce smuggled goods from entering the country. Foreign executives...
BEIJING-Tough times lie ahead for equipment suppliers and operators with the establishment of China Mobile expected to slow equipment purchases and with China Unicom still struggling to end its China-China-Foreign contracts and feverishly trying to secure alternative financing.With China Mobile still in its infancy...
AlcatelPoland. With Formus Polska to supply and implement its broadband wireless access network in Poland.Value: US$126 millionEricssonCanada. With Rogers Cantel to build a third-generation network as an evolution to the carrier's existing TDMA network.Value: US$340 millionChina. With China Unicom for the third phase of its GSM...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration may have misled American telecom firms by suggesting that problems created by Beijing's ouster of wireless and wireline investors in China Unicom could be ironed out by year's end as part of negotiations over China's membership in the World Trade Organization.But...
AustraliaACCC, Australia's corporate regulator, rejected Telstra Corp.'s proposed terms and conditions for other carriers to interconnect with its analog and digital mobile networks. The decision followed another decision by ACCC to reject Telstra' proposed terms and conditions for interconnect with its fixed network. Mobile...
BEIJING-China Unicom has big ambitions. That's no big news. When it was established in 1994, the company hoped to capture one-third of the mobile phone market and a 10th of the fixed-line market by 2000. However, today it has less than a 2-percent market...
China Unicom is working to oust foreign investors from its telecommunications projects this fall, and it appears investors may not leave quietly.The Chinese government has ordered China Unicom, the country's second telecommunications operator, to wind up all China-China-Foreign (CCF) partnerships by the end of...
NEW YORK-Metromedia International Group Inc. said it received notification from China Unicom stating a department of the Chinese government requested termination of one of Metromedia International's four joint telecommunications projects."The notification letter from China Unicom requested that negotiations begin immediately regarding the amounts to...
AlcatelAustria. With Tele.ring for its new GSM 1800 network.Value: US$298 millionEricssonBrazil. With Telecom Italia Mobile to expand its TDMA network.Value: US$100 millionChina. With China Telecom (Hong Kong) Ltd. for GSM equipment to expand its network in Guangdong province.Value: US$290 millionFinland. With Sonera for a GPRS system.Value: UndisclosedJapan. With...
