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Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
China Unicom (NYSE: CHU, 762.HK, 600050.SH) and China Netcom (NYSE: CN, 906.HK) plan to limit their merged south China subsidiaries to marketing-related departments while north China offices will match departments with company headquarters through the end of 2009, reports Ccidnet.com quoting an unnamed...
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Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology may allow China Unicom (NYSE: CHU, 762.HK, 600050.SH) users to access the China Mobile (NYSE: CHL, 941.HK) network in locations without a Unicom signal as early as November, reports People.com.cn. China Mobile users will not have the same access to...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The announced removal of China Netcom from the list of Hang Seng Index constituent stocks took effect after market close on Monday. The merger between China Unicom and China Netcom, recently approved by their shareholders, was an ongoing Chinese mainland telecommunications restructuring that was expected to create one of the three integrated services providers. The listing of China Netcom will be withdrawn...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Leaders of China Mobile and China Unicom to speak at Mobile Asia Congress
HONG KONG, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 edition of the GSMA's Mobile
Asia Congress will be the first event ever to bring together the leaders of
China Mobile and China Unicom -- two of the largest telecoms companies in
the world's most populous country. Wang Jianzhou, Chairman and CEO of China
Mobile, Chang Xiaobing, Chairman...
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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.
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CScout TrendBlog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
A snapshot of the latest trends of Location-based Service (LBS) in Beijing, Shanghai, Hongkong and Tokyo. Trend Description: Many people would agree that Location Based Services are becoming more and more popular worldwide and are opening a host of opportunities for business, but few would agree on the business model that will best monetize the service. [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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The MObinoDE {MODE} 动点博客 (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
iPhone is stepping closer to China. A very interesting finding in China Internet Conference is that China Unicom is promoting its 3G (WCDMA) with iPhone and Blackberry. The evidence is found on a leaflet for promoting China Unicom’s WCDMA service. We reported several days back Apple is recruiting in China for iPhone business, the guess we [...]
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Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
China Mobile Communications Corporation has been directed to give RMB 50 billion to China United Telecommunication Corporation (Unicom Group), the parent of China Unicom (NYSE: CHU, 762.HK, 600050.SH), by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to reduce CDMA purchasing pressure...
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Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
China Unicom (NYSE: CHU, 762.HK, 600050.SH) is expected to spend RMB 30 billion in its first round of WCDMA bidding scheduled to begin in more than 200 cities this week, reports Nanfang Daily quoting an unnamed insider. Unicom is rumored to purchase 600,000 to 700,000 wireless base stations during the...