China Mobile Hong Kong, Hutchinson and HKT have launched commercial 5G services in Hong Kong as of April 1.
Along with SmarTone, the operators had acquired 200 megahertz of 3.5 GHz spectrum for HKD1 billion ($129 million) in mid-October 2019. These 5G licenses will be...
Mobile operators in Hong Kong each acquired 50 megahertz of 3.5GHz spectrum in the first of three 5G auctions, raising a total of HKD1.006 billion ($128 million), the Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) reported.
"Four bidders, namely China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited (CMHK),...
UK carriers have paid £1.35 billion ($1.9bn) in the first stage of bidding for new 3.4 GHz radio spectrum, for use with 5G services, including high-bandwidth IoT-based concepts like autonomous driving. The new 3.4GHz allocation is the first bandwidth to be made available for...
How will proposed merger affect competition, prices?
The European Commission opened an investigation to assess whether the proposed joint venture between the Italian telecommunications businesses of Hutchison and VimpelCom is in line with the European Union regulations. The commission said it needs to make sure...
ZTE said pre 5G tests will take three to four months
BARCELONA, Spain – ZTE signed a memorandum of understanding with mobile operator Hutchison Drei Austria to deploy what it's calling the first “pre-5G” trial site in Europe.
In 2010, the Austrian telco selected ZTE as...
The UK regulator said the transaction will not create asymmetries in the market
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has approved the transfer of Qualcomm's L-band spectrum to local mobile telephony operators Vodafone and 3UK.
In August, Qualcomm’s subsidiary Qualcomm UK Spectrum (QUKS) agreed to sell the entirety...
The service will be available for 1M subscribers by the end of 2015
Hutchison 3G, the smallest mobile operator in the U.K. and provides services under the Three brand, has become the nation’s first mobile service provider to launch a commercial voice-over-LTE service.
The new service,...
Austria’s telecommunications regulatory body has postponed plans to auction wireless spectrum in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz band targeting the launch of LTE services due to a pending acquisition by a pair of the country’s largest wireless operators. The auction was...
The LTE spectrum auctions are changing competitive dynamics in mobile markets. Leading mobile operators are paying billions to achieve long-term spectrum dominance, while challengers are hoping to use acquired spectrum to deploy smart network solutions and boost their competitiveness. In this article, we assess who may be the winners and the losers of the spectrum poker.
International wireless conglomerate Vodafone Group plc (VOD) said it could receive up to $5.5 billion in an annual dividend from its 45% ownership stake in Verizon Wireless (VZ), according to published reports.According to a Bloomberg report, Vodafone's CFO Andy Halford told reporters in New...
TeleGeography | June 10, 2011
China’s Huawei Technologies has been awarded a contract to roll out 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network infrastructure for Hong Kong cellcos Hutchison (3) and PCCW via their 50/50 joint venture Genius Brand. Huawei revealed yesterday that the contract includes a turnkey...
Wide discrepancies have been discovered between the quality and speed of data throughput performance across the mobile broadband networks of 94 carriers in 28 European countries.According to a recently published by research report by ARCchart, which assessed the mobile broadband networks of carriers across...
Bangkok Post | April 25, 2011 | Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn
True Move is seeking to restart talks with prospective foreign partners in another step to move ahead with its third-generation (3G) mobile broadband service.
"We're proceeding with our 3G business expansion as planned, confident that our Hutch takeover...
March 31 2011 - 11:52 am ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News
Vodafone Group plc (VOD) has pledged $5 billion to acquire the remaining interest in Indian wireless operator Vodafone Essar Ltd. it did not previously control.
The move was initiated by the Essar...
Vodafone Group plc (VOD) has pledged $5 billion to acquire the remaining interest in Indian wireless operator Vodafone Essar Ltd. it did not previously control.The move was initiated by the Essar Group excising its put option on the 22% of the operations it controlled,...
The Australian | February 25, 2011 | Mitchell Bingemann
TELECOMS: Vodafone Hutchison Australia is readying itself to become a player in the National Broadband Network as early as next year after revealing it suffered a significant slow-down in mobile customer growth for the second half...
The Nation | February 3, 2011 | Usanee Mongkolporn
The National Telecommunications Commission will examine details of the CAT Telecom-True Corp-Hutchison group deals to decide which aspects of the contracts it should involve itself in.
NTC member Natee Sukonrat yesterday said the watchdog should demonstrate a...
Sydney Morning Herald | January 21, 2011 | Lucy Battersby
LIKE an unhappy population rising up against an oppressive landlord, angry mobs of Vodafone customers are rattling pitchforks at the company and calling for justice. Or at least to be let out of mobile phone...
TeleGeography | December 30, 2010 | Thailand
Thai cellco True Move, part of domestic integrated telecoms operator True Corp, has announced in a statement to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) that it will buy the Bangkok-based CDMA2000 mobile operations belonging to Hong Kong’s Hutchison...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:EricssonIndonesia: With Indosat to modernize its network with HSPA technology, including its Radio Base Station 6000, MSS Blade Cluster and Mini-Link TN. The three-year frame agreement also includes network design, deployment, training and support services.Value: UndisclosedNokia...
DUBLIN—The Irish are embracing mobile broadband services using both 3G cellular technology and mobile WiMAX, according to statistics from the government's Commission for Communications Regulation, or ComReg, the equivalent of the U.S.'s Federal Communications Commission.With a penetration rate of 117%, and nearly 79% of...
Social networking is exploding in mobile, according to figures released by ABI Research. And Frank Meehan thinks he knows how to capitalize.ABI polled 500 users of online social networks and found that 46% of respondents had used such services from their phones. MySpace and...
Vodafone Group plc will say goodbye to its fearless leader. After five years as CEO, Arun Sarin announced last week that he is retiring as head of one of the wireless industry's largest operators, and minority-interest holder in Verizon Wireless, at the end of...
