Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has reportedly reached an agreement with Apple to introduce the CDMA version of the iPhone 4S into China. The latest news released by Chinese local media stated that China Telecom has been preparing for the launch of CDMA-based iPhone 4S; and the new product will be available at the end [...]

China Telecom is reportedly inking a deal with Britain's Everything Everywhere to launch mobile services in the country. Everything Everywhere is a UK mobile operator jointly invested by France's Orange and Germany's T-Mobile. According to the agreement, China Telecom (Europe), China Telecom's wholly-owned subsidiary for the EMEA region, will launch an MVNO on the network [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ChinaCache International Holdings Limited, a provider of content delivery network services in China, has reached an agreement with the Shanghai branch of China Telecom Corporation Limited to provide acceleration supporting services to the latter. Under the agreement, ChinaCache will support China Telecom Shanghai's deployment and usage of acceleration supporting servers to maximize end-user experience and [...]

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, [...]

China Telecom has published its financial report for the first three quarters of 2011, stating that from January to September, its operating revenue reached CNY182.357 billion, a year-on-year increase of 11.8%. The company's net profit reached CNY13.859 billion, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%. The report said that during the first three quarters of 2011, the [...]

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 [...]

Proving that fairness ends at the Great Firewall, Chinese video website Tudou.com announced that it has reached agreement with China Telecom to increase the video upload speed on Tudou.com for users in Shanghai. According to local media reports, Tudou.com said with the cooperation, China Telecom's fiber network users in Shanghai will enjoy about 4 Mb/S [...]

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 [...]

China Telecom and France Telecom-Orange have signed in Beijing a strategic partnership framework agreement which aims to improve the two parties' service capacity in the global market. With the signing of the agreement, China Telecom and France Telecom-Orange will both play their advantages in the network and service sectors to further improve China Telecom's influence [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has announced its eSurfing cloud computing strategy, brand, and solution, and it plans to launch eSurfing cloud devices and cloud storage products in 2012. China Telecom established a cloud computing project team in 2009 and the company has completed tests in Shanghai, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi. According to Yang Jie, [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has published its financial report for the first half of 2011, stating that its operating revenue reached CNY120.208 billion and its net profit reached CNY9.808 billion during the first six months of the year. From January to June 2011, China Telecom gained 17.85 million new CDMA 3G users, reaching a [...]

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom and Chinese mainland's China Telecom will cooperate in the launch of Wi-Fi mobile Internet roaming service. Chunghwa Telecom said that due to the popularization of smartphones and tablet computers, and as the cross-strait communications and exchanges become more frequent, the demands for cross-strait voice and data roaming services are increasing rapidly. Prior [...]

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, [...]

China Telecom's Beijing branch has published a report, stating that it will open a mobile phone payment function for its eSurfing 3G users. With this new function, users can inquiry about their bank card balances, pay mobile phone fees, pay credit card bills, and transfer money between bank cards with their mobile phones. They can [...]

Chinese Internet giant Tencent has announced that it is cooperating with China Telecom and five mobile phone manufacturers in the launch of six smartphone products, which have the embedded QQ-service platforms. These six smartphone products are made by five Chinese mobile phone makers, including Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad, K-Touch, and Hisense. Based on China Telecom's CDMA [...]

The microblog channel of Sina.com and China Telecom have signed an agreement to implement a cooperation for products based on the microblog services at Sina.com. Under the agreement, China Telecom's eSurfing users, broadband users, and fixed-line users will be able to log onto Sina microblog with their China Telecom accounts; meanwhile, China Telecom will open [...]