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China Unicom Increases 3G Overseas Roaming Services

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:48:48 +0000

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published a report, stating that by December 31, 2010, the company had opened 3G international roaming and short message services in collaboration with 195 operators in 98 countries and regions. According to the report, China Unicom has cooperated with 487 operators in 238 countries and regions, including Hong Kong, [...]

China, Japan, South Korea Work To Cut Data Roaming Fees

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:48:03 +0000

Telecom operators from China, South Korea, and Japan have signed a strategic agreement to reduce the international data roaming fees among the three countries from March 2011. According to reports in South Korean local media, China Mobile, South Korea's KT, and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have signed the strategic framework agreement at China Mobile's headquarters. The [...]

China Unicom Launches International Roaming Service In Myanmar

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:20:40 +0000

Just in time for the heated Chinese travel season, China Unicom and Myanmar Post and Telecommunications have signed a agreement in Kunming, Yunnan, to jointly provide GSM international roaming service to China Unicom's users in Myanmar. This is reportedly the first international roaming service agreement signed between Myanmar and an overseas telecom operator, making China [...]

China Unicom Launches Hotlines For International Roaming Customer Service

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:50:21 +0000

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has launched a new international roaming customer service hotline for its users who travel overseas. If China Unicom's mobile users cannot access the local networks normally or their mobile phones cannot be used normally when traveling to another country, they can dial China Unicom's new international roaming customer service hotlines [...]

China Unicom, Taiwan Mobile Cooperate For Roaming Fee Elimination

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:31:32 +0000

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, China Unicom and Taiwan Mobile have jointly launched a roaming preferential policy to free travelers between the mainland and Taiwan from high roaming fees. With the policy, Taiwanese mobile phone users who travel to the Chinese mainland cities only need to pay the mobile communications fee at the local [...]

China Telecom Will Close Mobile Phone Dual-mode Card Service

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:04:31 +0000

Chinese telecommunications operator China Telecom has announced that it will formally close its C to G dual-mode card service, which allows China Telecom's CDMA network users to roam to China Unicom's GSM network, from August 1, 2009. China Telecom Shanghai told local media that, according to plan, China Telecom will not provide the C to G [...]

Guangdong May Cancel Roaming Fee In Pearl River Delta

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:00:13 +0000

According to Gu Weizhong, director of the Guangdong Communications Administration, to promote the integration of mobile communications fees in the Pearl River Delta, the administration will ask basic telecommunications enterprises to reduce or even cancel the long-distance and roaming fees of calls made between cities in the Pearl River Delta in southern China. Gu said basic [...]

Peoples Changes Name To China Mobile Hong Kong

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:01:20 +0000

The telecommunications company Peoples, China Mobile's subsidiary in Hong Kong, announced that the company has changed its registered name to China Mobile Hong Kong from December 5, 2008, though its service brand Peoples will be maintained.

Previously a company owned by China Resources Group, China Mobile Hong Kong officially launched its ... Read More>>

Reduced Roaming Fees Between Mainland And Taiwan

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:01:57 +0000

According to the report in Taiwan's Economic Daily News, cross-strait telecommunication operators are preparing to jointly reduce the roaming fees between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan at a rate of about 50%.

At present, a call from the Chinese mainland to Taiwan costs about NTD16, which is about CNY4 per minute. ... Read More>>

NTT Expands WLAN Roaming Services Into China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:03:22 +0000

A bilateral roaming agreement will provide Japan's NTT roaming subscribers trial access to over 900 Wi-Fi hotspots managed by China Mobile in six Olympic cities.

As the first phase of NTT's roll out, the coverage will grow to over 4000 hotspots by the end of 2008. Chinese subscribers will also have ... 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 Unicom Launches CDMA International Roaming Service In South Korea

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:32:46 +0000

China Unicom (CHU) says it has launched CDMA international data roaming services for Chinese travelers visiting South Korea.

The new service is only available to the post-payment CDMA users of China Unicom and it can be automatically opened after the users submit an application at China Unicom's business halls or call ... Read More>>