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Chinese Q3 Wireless Revenue Climbs For Linktone

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:20:25 +0000

Chinese wireless value-added service firm Linktone Ltd. unveiled its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010, and stated that gross revenues climbed, but profit was still small. The company had gross revenues of USD19.8 million, representing 17% sequential increase compared with USD16.9 million in the second quarter of 2010, and 43% [...]

Wireless Revenues In China Sink For Linktone

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:51:35 +0000

Embattled Chinese wireless services firm Linktone Ltd. announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010, and showed a drop in both revenue and profit. Linktone's gross revenues for the second quarter were USD16.9 million, compared with USD19.0 million in the first quarter of 2010 and USD18.3 million in the second [...]

Mobile Revenues Sink While Internet Ads Increase In China For Sina.com

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:13:02 +0000

Chinese online media portal and mobile value-added services firm Sina Corporation announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, and stated its net revenues grew 15% year-on-year. For the first quarter of 2010, Sina reported net revenues of USD85.0 million, compared to USD73.8 million in the same period in 2009. Advertising revenues [...]

23 Billion Mobile Messages Sent During Chinese New Year

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:00:43 +0000

A total of 23 billion short messages were sent in China during the 2010 Chinese New Year holiday, which was an average of 30.8 wireless messages sent per person based on the 747 million mobile phone users in the country. Data released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that SMS sent during the [...]

Linktone's Wireless Revenue Crashes In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:00:37 +0000

Wireless value-added services revenue precipitously dropped in the third quarter ended September 30, 2009, for [...]

Chinese Telecom Operators Fight Mobile Spam With New Filters

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:35:21 +0000

Following the launch of a joint platform for dealing with spam mobile short messages in June 2009, the three major telecom operators in China have now each worked out their respective spam SMS screening services to help users block unwanted short messages. Among them, China Telecom just formally launched a short message filtering service for its [...]

Chinese Mobile Messages Sent During Spring Festival Doubled In 2009

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:03:25 +0000

China Mobile Beijing branch says the total number of multimedia mobile messages sent via China Mobile's networks during the one week Spring Festival holiday in January 2009 nearly doubled that of 2008. According to the statistics provided by the China Mobile Beijing branch, from January 25 to January 31, 2009, the daily average number of short [...]

Unified SMS Price Formally Launched In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:03:31 +0000

According to the order previously issued by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, starting from January 15, 2009, Chinese telecommunications operators have implemented unified prices for the short message service, no matter if the message is sent within the network of a single operator or sent across networks of ... Read More>>

Hong Kong's CDMA2000 Mobile Network Finally Launched

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:03:17 +0000

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority announced that PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited has launched CDMA2000 mobile service in Hong Kong.

This new service will enable visitors from other parts of the world to use their CDMA2000/CDMA IS-95 mobile phones to roam with the company's CDMA2000 network in Hong Kong. The CDMA2000 ... Read More>>

Linktone Reports Weak Wireless Revenue, Widening Operating Loss In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:33:58 +0000

Chinese wireless value-added services company Linktone (LTON) is fighting the tide of sinking wireless fortune as its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 show it only recorded revenues of USD19.1 million, compared with USD20.5 million in the first quarter of 2008, and an operating loss ... Read More>>

Wireless Widgets Top China Mobile's Web 2.0 List

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:33 +0000

China Mobile (CHL) has started a semi-secret beta test of its mspaces.net, a Web 2.0 product based on Internet and mobile phone platforms.

The mspaces.net website is quite similar with Google's iGoogle product and the personal portal of Yahoo, which covers many Web 2.0 functions, including RSS feeds and widget managements. ... Read More>>

China Telecom's CDMA Tender Results Unveiled

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:03:18 +0000

The results of China Telecom's (CHA) CNY27.9 billion CDMA network tender has been disclosed and the major parts of the contract have been gained by Huawei, ZTE and Alcatel-Lucent, which received about 40%, 40% and 20%, respectively.

Apart from these three major companies, Fujian Fujitsu Communication Software Co., Ltd. gained the ... Read More>>

KongZhong's Revenue Up, Fueled Little By Mobile Advertising In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:18:57 +0000

Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong (KONG) announced its unaudited second quarter 2008 financial results and says total revenues increased 10% sequentially to USD23.52 million.

Total WVAS revenues for the second quarter increased 9% sequentially to USD23.13 million. Revenues from 2.5G services accounted for approximately 33% of total WVAS revenues and ... Read More>>

China Unicom Completes Entire GPRS Upgrade

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:03:39 +0000

According to China Unicom (CHU), the company finished its upgrade from GSM to GPRS in the 31 cities and provinces across China by the end of June 2008 and all of its pre-paid and post-paid users are now able to enjoy the GPRS services.

By mid-July, China Unicom has opened GPRS ... Read More>>

China Mobile: Wireless Marketing Services Stopped During Olympics

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:47:12 +0000

China Mobile (CHL) has sent an internal memo to its partners which outlines the business management organization during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

The notice says that companies are strictly prohibited from sending mobile promotional group messages by SMS, MMS or WAP to China Mobile's customers without the express consent of ... Read More>>

Henan China Unicom Invests CNY3 Billion To Upgrade GSM Network

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:03:10 +0000

China Unicom Henan branch introduced the progress of its GSM network expansion in a press conference held in Zhengzhou and announced plans to invest another CNY3 billion to improve its GSM network.

The project started this time is the 16th stage project of Henan China Unicom's GSM network expansion. In the ... Read More>>

China Mobile Eliminates CNY260 Million Communications Fee For Earthquake Area

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:33:59 +0000

China Mobile (CHL) said it had derated a total of CNY260 million in communications fee for about 3.329 million mobile phone users in the earthquake area of Sichuan from May 12 to May 31.

During that period, about 1.05 million people reportedly entered the five regions of Chengdu, Mianyang, Deyang, Guangyuan ... Read More>>

China Mobile And Samsung Deliver 3G Mobile Phones To BOCOG

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:34:11 +0000

China Mobile has fulfilled its commitment to providing 3G service for the Beijing Olympic Games by delivering 15000 Samsung TD-SCDMA mobile phones and related services to the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee.

According to Chinese media, the donations that China Mobile and Samsung have made to China Mobile include 15000 TD-SCDMA ... Read More>>