With a total investment of CNY4 billion, China Mobile's new call center in Luoyang, Henan province, has been formally launched. The new call center is reportedly the largest of its kind in the world. It marks China Mobile's new move to realize integrated management of call centers, which were divided by administrative regions in the [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile announced that its 139 email service has opened to the users of China Unicom and China Telecom. Starting from December 23, 2011, users of China Unicom and China Telecom were able to register for the 139 email service of China Mobile. However, the current version provided is a reduced version [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile plans to invest USD1.5 billion in CMPak, its wholly-owned subsidiary in Pakistan, over the next four years. Fan Yunjun, chief executive officer of CMPak, revealed the news over a talk with Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. Fan said that China Mobile hopes to enlarge its 3G market share in [...]

Starting from January 1, 2012, China Mobile Beijing has extended the validity period of its prepaid SIM cards, including electronic cards, from the current two years to five years. At the same time, prepaid cards that were already purchased by users and are still within their valid periods will also be covered in this new [...]

According to statistics provided by the three major Chinese telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the number of 3G users largely increased in November 2011, reaching a total of 110 million. China Unicom reported that the number of its newly increased 3G users was over three million for the first time in [...]

Li Yue, president of China Mobile, said that by the end of October 2011, China Mobile has signed wireless city construction agreements with over 160 cities in 26 provinces in China, of which nearly 150 cities in 22 provinces had completed construction of basic wireless city platforms. At the same time, the company has developed [...]

By the end of September 2011, there were 150 million registered users of mobile phone application stores in China, an increase of almost 50% compared with the previous quarter, according to latest statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The statistics showed that by the end of the third quarter of 2011, [...]

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has published a report on the telecom service quality in China for the third quarter of 2011, stating that 17,099 telecom service complaints were received during the reporting period, an increase of 13.8% compared with the previous quarter. By complaint rate of users, China Unicom was [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has announced that it has decided to establish its largest call center, which will have 20,000 seats, in Huaian, Jiangsu province. With an investment of over CNY2 billion, the first phase project of the call center will start construction before the end of the year and will initially provide 10,000 [...]

Digerati in China's capital city are set to welcome free wireless surfing beginning November 2011. The first seven regions within the city to have the service include Xidan, Wangfujing, the Olympic area, the three major train stations, Financial Street, Yansha, and the Zhongguancun Avenue area. They will have free-of-charge Wi-Fi access by the end of [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has published its performance report for the third quarter of 2011, stating that from January to September 2011, the company realized operating revenue of CNY383.846 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%. The report also showed that during the first three quarters of 2011, China Mobile's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, [...]

Chinese telecom group China Mobile has announced the formal establishment of its board of directors, and Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, signed services contracts with five outside directors. The board of directors of China Mobile is formed by nine members, including chairman Wang Jianzhou; deputy chairman and party secretary Xi Guohua; director and general [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile and the Ministry of Education of China have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly promote greater online uses for education. According to the agreement, over the next five years, the Ministry of Education and China Mobile will implement cooperation in various sectors, including infrastructure for education informationization; development [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has published its semi-annual results ended June 30, 2011, stating that its profit attributable to shareholders reached CNY61.3 billion, a year-over-year increase of 6.3%; and its net profit rate reached 24.5%. China Mobile said that during the first half of 2011, its operating revenue was CNY250.1 billion, increasing by 8.8% [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that it will cooperate with mainstream telecom operators to create ten international innovation centers in Europe and America. Meanwhile, the company plans to establish additional innovation centers in China via partnerships with the country's three major telecommunications operators China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom. ZTE said [...]

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has recently issued opinions on regulating the marketing activities of telecom operators on university campuses. The opinions state that telecom operators should protect the legal rights of young consumers and should not sign exclusive agreements with schools. The opinions said that when implementing marketing on campuses, [...]

Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, revealed that the company will continue to develop the Chinese Wi-Fi market and plans to invest CNY10 billion in this sector in 2011. While attending a general meeting held in Hong Kong, Wang said that China Mobile is actively developing its Wi-Fi business and about 30% of its overall [...]

China Mobile Guangzhou and RIM have jointly announced that they will open the BlackBerry Internet Service in Guangzhou, which becomes one of the first Chinese cities to have the BIS. Prior to this, RIM's president in China Gregory Shea revealed to local media that the company would cooperate with China Mobile to launch the BIS [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has signed an agreement with the municipal government of Xi'an, Shaanxi, to invest CNY16 billion for the construction of a wireless city infrastructure. Under the agreement, the two parties will jointly promote the building of Xi'an as a wireless city. They will implement cooperation in various sectors, including the building [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China. China Unicom reportedly started the development of the operating system and the basic [...]