Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that it has gained a wireless network equipment order from Everything Everywhere, one of the largest telecom ventures in the United Kingdom. This is reportedly the first time for Huawei to gain a major wireless network contract in the UK. Under this four-year contract, Huawei will update [...]
Two major Chinese telecom operators, China Mobile and China Telecom, have published their respective financial reports for the first three quarters of 2009. According to the financial report of China Mobile, during the three quarters ended September 30, 2009, it made revenue of CNY326.977 billion, an increase of 8.9% compared with the same period of last [...]
Guangdong Provincial Tourism Bureau and Guangdong Unicom have signed a strategic partnership agreement to boost the tourism development of Guangdong province. Guangdong Unicom will assist the information technology construction of Guangdong's tourism sector making use of its advantages in information technology, networking and services. It will provide tourism enterprises in the province with basic communications and [...]
He Huajie, deputy general manager for China Unicom's product center, said during China's Communications Industry Development Summit that China Unicom will start 3G commercial use in 285 cities across China from September 28, 2009. He revealed that since the launch of China Unicom's 3G commercial trial on May 17, 2009, the number of its users has [...]
China Mobile Guangxi, a subsidiary of China Mobile, has just released a corporate social responsibility report. Different from the CSR reports of others which are usually released annually, China Mobile Guangxi's report is the first one that covers a total period of ten years (1999-2009). Obviously the company believes that it is better late than never [...]
China Mobile and the Symbian Foundation have inked a deal for cooperation on services for TD-SCDMA. The first partnership initiative is the simplification of Symbian Signed testing services for developers submitting applications to China Mobile's newly launched application store, Mobile Market. The inclusion of Symbian Signed services will allow China Mobile to provide mobile developers with [...]
China Unicom and Telefonica have agreed both to cooperate in various business areas such as joint acquisitions and to push forward a share swap. Both parties have entered into a subscription agreement in which China Unicom and Telefonica agreed to invest the equivalent of USD1 billion in the other party through the acquisition of each party's [...]
While China Mobile and China Telecom are promoting their own respective mobile phone applications online stores, China Unicom has also announced plans to set up a similar online store, targeting WCDMA handsets. According to China Unicom, the company is currently cooperating with related departments to develop the platform for the app program's online store and its [...]
China Unicom and Apple have jointly announced that the two parties have reached a three-year agreement to sell Apple's iPhone handsets in China. China Unicom announced the information in its semi-annual performance report published today and stated the iPhone handsets will be formally put into the Chinese market in the fourth quarter of 2009. The company [...]
During China Telecom's recent meeting for the placement of 3G handset orders, Xiao Chaojun, vice president of Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment, positioned the company's product lines into three tiers, with the aim of becoming one of the top five handset makers in the world within three years. The first tier are mobile phones with retail prices [...]
