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China's MIIT To Regulate Telecom Promotions On University Campuses

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:18:54 +0000

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, [...]

China Netcom Shanghai Website To Close On August 31

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:00:40 +0000

China Unicom Shanghai has published a notice stating that from August 31, 2009, the former website of China Netcom Shanghai, Sh.cnc.cn, will stop providing services. According to the company, a transition period will be available from then on and people who try to visit the China Netcom Shanghai website will receive a prompt that links to [...]

China Unicom Shanghai To Close 10060 Customer Service Hotline

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:30:51 +0000

China Unicom Shanghai has published a report which states because the integration of its customer service and supporting systems have been completed, the current 10060 customer service hotline will be closed on August 30, 2009. The 10060 customer service hotline formerly belonged to China Netcom, which was acquired by China Unicom during the telecom industry restructuring [...]

China Netcom Sheds Hotel Assets

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:51:27 +0000

China Netcom, one of the major telecommunications service providers in China, has announced plans to sell five of its affiliated star-rate hotels in the coming months. The five hotels that China Netcom wants to sell are the five-star Beijing Jingdu Xinyuan Hotel, four-star Jinan Litian Hotel, four-star Qingdao Litian Hotel, four-star Qiqiha'er Guaomain Hotel, and three-star [...]

Privatization Of PCCW Approved By Shareholders

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:50:42 +0000

Hong Kong's PCCW has held a much-publicized special shareholders meeting at which 75% present shareholders approved the buyout offer led by chairman Richard Li at the price of HKD4.5 per share, involving totally HKD15.9 billion. Previous to this, the two major shareholders, Pacific Century Regional Developments, managed by Richard Li, and China Netcom, which is already [...]

China's PAS User Number Shrinks To Less Than 70 Million In 2008

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:01:04 +0000

Statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that by the end of 2008, the number of China's wireless local phone users had decreased to 68.931 million. China's wireless local phone users are mainly personal access system users and a few SCDMA users. Compared with 2007, the year 2008 saw an even greater [...]

China Approves Issuance Of 3G Licenses

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:34:49 +0000

China's State Council has announced that it approves China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to start the issuing of 3G licenses and it will continue to support the development and promotion of the Chinese-made TD-SCDMA wireless technology.

The State Council says the issue of the 3G licenses will play an ... Read More>>

Hong Kong Agrees On Privatization Of PCCW

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:35:45 +0000

The Office of the Telecommunications Authority of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has announced that it has agreed on allowing privatizing PCCW, one of the largest and most comprehensive communications providers in Hong Kong.

A spokesperson from the OFTA says the director of OFTA believes that the privatization of PCCW ... Read More>>

China Unicom Acquires Fixed Lines In 21 Southern Chinese Provinces

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:01:50 +0000

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited has announced plans to invest CNY6.43 billion to acquire the fixed-line business in Tianjin and 21 southern Chinese provinces from its major shareholders China Unicom Group and China Netcom Group.

It says in a report that the subjects of this acquisition mainly include the telecommunications business ... Read More>>

China Unicom To Construct 3G Trial Networks In Seven Chinese Cities

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:04:58 +0000

China Unicom (CHU) has started the deployment of its WCDMA trial networks and it plans to set up the networks first in seven Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Shenzhen, Foshan, Liuzhou, Zhengzhou, Baoding and Wuxi.

Each of these seven cities will have about 100 WCDMA base stations. At the same time, information ... Read More>>

Parent Companies Of China Unicom, China Netcom Will Merge In January 2009

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:01:09 +0000

According to a report published by China Unicom (CHU), the parent companies of China Unicom and China Netcom will officially merge at the beginning of January 2009.

By then, all the claims and debts of the original China Unicom and China Netcom will be taken over by the new China Unicom ... Read More>>

Beijing Netcom Reduces Charge For 2M Broadband

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:01:30 +0000

Having upgraded the highest speed of its ADSL broadband to four megabytes, the China Netcom Beijing branch has now started to reduce the fee for its two megabytes ADSL broadband and the price has been formally decreased to CNY168 from November 2008.

According to the new charging plan of the China ... Read More>>

MIIT Orders Chinese Telecoms To Share Telecom Infrastructure

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:11:47 +0000

Any hopes from foreign telecom operators that China's recent fragmentation of its telecommunications sector would usher in a new era of decreased monopolization should be chagrined that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has just issued a circular that requires China Telecom (CHA), China Mobile (CHL) and ... Read More>>

Wang Leilei To Be CEO Of Struggling Chinese Mobile Firm

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:04:47 +0000

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 ... Read More>>

MIIT To Limit Redundant Construction Of Chinese Telecom Operators

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:38:00 +0000

Xi Guohua, vice minister of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, has said that the ministry plans to launch sharing measures to limit the redundant network constructions of Chinese telecommunications operators and to avoid the waste of resources caused by the redundant systems.

According to the annual audit report ... Read More>>

China Netcom Announces Financial Results

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:05:56 +0000

China Netcom announced its unaudited 2008 interim results today and said its revenue for the first half of 2008 hit CNY41.125 billion.

That revenue includes upfront connection fees of CNY505 million. Excluding upfront connection fees, revenue was CNY40.62 billion, representing a decrease of 0.15% over the same period of last year. ... Read More>>

New China Unicom Managers Will Be Selected From High Levels Of China Unicom, China Netcom

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:17:38 +0000

After Chang Xiaobing was assigned as president and CEO of the newly reconfigured China Unicom (CHU), China Unicom says that after the merger of China Unicom and China Netcom, the management tier of the new China Unicom will be selected from the current senior managers of the two companies.

China Unicom ... Read More>>

Alipay Enters China's Telecommunications Payment Sector

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:01:19 +0000

Alibaba's Zhejiang Alipay Internet Technology Ltd has signed a cooperative agreement with China Netcom Xuzhou branch to jointly develop services in the online payment sector.

According to the agreement, China Netcom's users in Xuzhou will be able to pay the charges to China Netcom via the platform of Alipay. The cooperation ... Read More>>

Zaijian: KongZhong CEO Hangs Up Phone, Departs Post In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:04:20 +0000

Chinese mobile value-added services firm KongZhong (KONG) said that its co-founder Yunfan Zhou will resign from his position as CEO, effective October 13, 2008.

Zhou will continue to serve as the chairman of the board, and the company's statement says personal reasons have led Zhou to make this departure decision.

KongZhong says ... Read More>>

China Netcom Delisting From Two Markets On October 15

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:01:55 +0000

China Netcom has released a report that after the completion of the merger with China Unicom, the company will be delisted from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and New York Stock Exchange on October 15, 2008.

By then, China Netcom will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Unicom.

In the report, ... Read More>>