Information Policy (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The move is aimed at curbing duplicated infrastructure investments, as the Chinese telcos move towards integrated service operations and 3G roll-outs. The Chinese authorities have required three major telecoms carriers to share and jointly construct core passive infrastructure. The scheme...
Telecompaper (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
(Telecompaper) The Chinese government has ordered the three domestic operators to share infrastructure. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) issued a circular ordering China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom to share and co-construct network infrastructure, state press agency Xinhua reports. The...
randomwire.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Apologies for being offline the past few days - I moved into my new apartment but had an unexpected delay in setting up the connection (China Telecom failed to deliver on their 24 hour installation promise but at least the installation good) as well as taking a short trip outside of Shenzhen (more on this [...]
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
According to Chinese news, China Mobile’s ultimate parent, the China State Asset Management Co. [CSAM], took 50 billion Chinese Yuan (about 7.30 billion USD) from China Mobile Group (the parent of China Mobile Limited) (CHL), and gave it to China Telecom (CHA). For CSAM, this is merely moving money from the left pocket to the right pocket, because both China Mobile and China Telecom are majority owned...
cellular-news (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
China Telecom says that it has completed the $6.4 billion purchase of China Unicom's CDMA network. China Unicom is now free to complete its own purchase of landline operator, China Netcom - as part of the government mandated restructuring of the industry.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Most Advanced Submarine Cable System Directly Linking United States, Mainland China, South Korea and Taiwan Provides Benefits to Communications Industry BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and DALLAS, Sept. 30
Cnet (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Some of the world's leading phone companies complete the construction of an undersea cable to provide more Internet capacity between the U.S. and parts of Asia.
ChinaTechNews.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
According to a notice released by China Telecom (CHA), the company will formally become the operator of China's CDMA network from October 1, 2008. At the same time, the company has made a detailed plan for the relocation of the CDMA network to ensure the normal communications services during the relocation, which is expected to be [...]
ChinaTechNews.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
China Mobile (CHL) may sell the Apple iPhone handsets without 3G or Wi-Fi function in the Chinese mainland. South China Morning Post reports that China Mobile may agree to sell the iPhone in the mainland on the condition that Apple make a customized iPhone product, which will not support the 3G or Wi-Fi function, for the [...]
Parks Associates (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
I still haven't got hold of ChinaQ. Tried to call a couple of times but no one's picking up. Therefore, I'm still not 100% sure about what's the level of support from China Telecom. I doubt it's a strategic investment from the corporate level. I've also downloaded the client and visited the world. When I was there, it was totally dark (presumably night in China) and the world feels very much like Second...
ChinaTechNews.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Wang Leilei, former CEO of Tom Online, will become chairman and CEO of struggling Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong (KONG) from October 13, 2008 and the company's current CEO and chairman Zhou Yunfan will step down from the positions on the same day. KongZhong is trying to pull itself out of a depresses period. The [...]
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Reports say China Mobile has negotiated with Apple to shortly release an iPhone, but without 3G and Wi-Fi capabilities. This would force users to access mobile Internet at 2G speeds exclusively from...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
China Telecommunications Corporation (Telecom Group) said on Saturday it would invest 80 billion yuan (11.69 billion U.S. Dollars) to upgrade its newly acquired CDMA network. Starting Oct. 1, Telecom Group takes over the network, which was transferred from China United Communications Corporation (Unicom Group), parent company of the wireless service provider China Unicom. The transfer is expected to...
Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
It’s been nearly a year and China Mobile is still in talks with Apple about bringing the iPhone to China, though the revenue-sharing issue that had stalled them was resolved back in July. Now we know why the talks keep dragging on: hardware localization.
Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
No WiFi or 3g for China Mobile phone, report claims China Mobile is expected to start selling a stripped down version of the iPhone, with both 3G and WiFi connectivity removed, reports the South China Morning Post.
