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China Mobile Changes Its CEO

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:05:10 +0000

China Mobile Limited announced today that its chief executive officer has been replaced. Effective today, Wang Jianzhou has ceased to be the CEO, but he remains executive director and chairman of the telecommunications firm Li Yue, executive director and vice president of the company, has been re-designated as executive director and CEO of China Mobile. [...]

China To Start Trial Of Mobile Phone Number Portability In October 2010

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:21:57 +0000

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has completed its tests in Tianjin and will start the trial operation of the mobile phone number portability service from October 2010. The mobile phone number portability service allows users of a telecom operator to change their mobile communication service providers and enjoy the services of the new [...]

HTC Launches New Mobile Phone Brands In Mainland China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:57:42 +0000

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC has brought new smartphone products under a new brand of HTC to the Chinese mainland market, aiming to become a top five smartphone vendor in this marketplace. The company has released four HTC brands, including Tianxi and Tianyi based on China Mobile's TD-SCDMA network, and Wildfire and Desire based on [...]

China Mobile Appoints New General Manager

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:05:37 +0000

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has announced adjustments to its executive team and Li Yue, former deputy general manager of China Mobile, was promoted to general manager of the company, replacing Wang Jianzhou. However, Wang will continue to be China Mobile's chairman and party secretary. China Mobile's new general manager Li, aged 51, has rich experience in [...]

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 [...]

TD-SCDMA Signal Will Cover All Areas Within Beijing's Fifth Ring

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:46:50 +0000

China Mobile says its TD-SCDMA networks in 10 Chinese cities have covered 95% of the areas covered by 2G networks, of which, the TD-SCDMA signal has covered all areas within the fifth ring road area of Beijing. In addition, some large communities and counties outside the fifth ring, including Shangdi and Huilongguan, can receive the TD-SCDMA [...]

Alcatel-Lucent Gains WCDMA Contract In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:17:24 +0000

Alcatel-Lucent will soon deploy 3G WCDMA networks in 14 Chinese provinces and municipalities. China Unicom granted Alcatel-Lucent's Chinese subsidiary, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, this contract in which Alcatel-Lucent will provide about 11000 Node B base stations in Hebei, Fujian Guangxi, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Shandong and Xinjiang. The financial terms of [...]

China Unicom Publishes Operating Statistics For January 2009

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:04:50 +0000

China Unicom has published its operating statistics for January 2009 and states the number of its GSM mobile phone users realized a net increase of 839,000 during the period. Statistics show that the total number of China Unicom's GSM mobile phone users reached 134.20 million by the end of January. In addition, the number of its [...]

Shanghai Gains 100,000 3G Mobile Phone Numbers From China Unicom

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:01:00 +0000

China Unicom's Shanghai branch has gained 100,000 mobile phone numbers with the 186 prefix for its WCDMA business due to open commercially on May 17, 2009. At the same time, China Unicom is promoting its network construction in accordance with its plan and will try to release the WCDMA mobile phone numbers in more cities on [...]

Huawei Delivers China Telecom's CDMA Networks In 30 Cities

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:01:21 +0000

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei has delivered the CDMA networks in 30 major Chinese cities, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Suzhou, Ningbo, Tianjin and Urumqi, to China Telecom.

In addition, the local networks in six cities, including Beijing, Wuxi and Xiamen, are undergoing optimization and all the main projects are expected to ... Read More>>

China's Ministry of Public Security Opens SMS Alarm Channel

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:02:43 +0000

China's Ministry of Public Security has opened a short message alarm channel and will use the number 12110 as the national unified alarm number, adding new ways for people to report emergencies to the police.

According to the requirement of the Ministry of Public Security, cities that already have short message ... Read More>>

Online Payment Available For China Unicom Fixed Line Users

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:02:19 +0000

Chinese telecommunications operator China Unicom has announced that after launching online enquiry and payment functions for mobile phone users across China, the company has now opened a fixed line payment function that is available in 10 northern Chinese cities and provinces, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Shandong, Shanxi, ... Read More>>

China's Huawei Enters Submarine Cable Market

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:01:51 +0000

Huawei Marine Networks, a joint venture invested by Huawei Technologies and Global Marine Systems Limited, has started operation following an unveiling ceremony held in Tianjin.

Huawei and Global Marine signed an agreement on December 11, 2007 to set up the joint venture and company has already completed relevant registration and examination ... 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>>

Linktone Decides It Doesn't Want Chinese Advertising Revenue

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:47:45 +0000

With its stock price hovering at about USD0.83 at the close of trading on November 14 — a drop of almost 75% since the beginning of 2008 — Chinese wireless value-added services company Linktone (LTON) apparently believes it does not need additional revenue and has severed its exclusive advertising agreement ... Read More>>

Mobile Phone Numbers Will Be Portable In Tianjin And Shenzhen

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:53:57 +0000

According to telecommunications management departments, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China plans to start a mobile phone number portability trial in Tianjin and Shenzhen from October 2008.

By then, mobile phone numbers, with exceptions to those TD-SCDMA numbers starting with 157, will be portable for users in Tianjin ... Read More>>

China Mobile To Add 60,000 More TD Beta Users

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:30:21 +0000

To promote the development of China's TD industry, China Mobile (CHL) will recruit 60,000 more beta users for its TD-SCDMA testing from June 5 to July 31.

China Mobile says that it will add the 60,000 beta users to further expand the scope and scale of its TD-SCDMA testing and have ... Read More>>

Alcatel-Lucent's Video Telephony Services Head To Beijing

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:33:45 +0000

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has been selected by Beijing Netcom for a next-generation network service transformation in Beijing to provide a wide range of advanced services to its customers, such as point-to-point video telephony services.

"We will use our comprehensive network transformation solution, including our significant network experience, to enable Beijing Netcom to ... Read More>>

Chinese Telecom Operators Set Up 14772 TD Base Stations

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:34:17 +0000

News from the 2008 LTE Summit is that the three telecom operators in China have set up a total of 14772 TD base stations across the country.

According to Xu Jingtao, marketing director of Datang Mobile, China Mobile has built about 14000 TD base stations in eight cities across China; China ... Read More>>

China Mobile's Operation Center Commences In Tianjin

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:37:08 +0000

China Mobile (CHL) is investing more than CNY600 million for building an operations center in Tianjin Airport Industrial Park.

As the base of China Mobile (Tianjin), the Binhai New Zone Operation Center is a modernized service area that integrates such functions as data network, call center, communications hub and operations dispatching ... Read More>>