U.S. mobile technology company Qualcomm reached a new 3G/4G patent licensing agreement with Shenzhen Gionee Communication Equipment Co. Ltd. According …

Even though China saw a decrease in the past year of newly launched smartphones, the statistics on the total number …

Chinese e-commerce website JD.com and top smartphone maker Coolpad announced that the two parties have reached a strategic cooperation agreement and signed a CNY10 billion procurement contract. Li Bin, executive vice president of Coolpad, said that the company previously sought opportunities to sell more directly to the Internet sector and tried the pre-sale model by […]

China Telecom has just lowered international roaming fees in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Egypt, and South Africa. With the new policy, users will pay no more than CNY2.99 per minute for calling from these countries and regions to mainland China, or receiving calls in these countries and regions, representing an […]

Wang Hengjiang, deputy general manager for China Mobile's terminal subsidiary, revealed during Qualcomm's Chinese partner summit that in 2012, the company's sales of TD-SCDMA devices were over 60 million units, higher than the targeted 55 million units. For the year of 2013, China Mobile has made a new goal of selling 120 million TD-SCDMA devices, […]

From January to June 2012, China's mobile phone shipment reached over 190 million units, including 107 million 3G mobile phones, according to statistics released by China Academy of Telecommunication Research of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. During the first half of 2012, a total number of 2,099 types of new mobile phones […]

China Unicom and Motorola have jointly launched Motorola's first low-price smartphone XT390 in China. This is reportedly the first time for Motorola to launch a smartphone with price of around CNY1,000 in China and the company is the first international mobile phone maker to support China's "CNY1,000 smartphone strategy". Motorola XT390 adopts the Android 2.3 […]

Sony Mobile Communications, previously known as Sony Ericsson, has announced that its first Sony-branded smartphone product Xperia S LT26i will soon be launched in mainland China, with the recommended retail price at CNY4,298. As the flagship product of the new-generation Sony Xperia smartphone, the launch of Xperia S LT26i marks Sony's enhanced use of its […]

Li Wang, executive vice president of the Chinese mobile phone brand Coolpad, revealed that the company plans to completely stop manufacturing mobile phones and non-smartphone devices in 2012. Instead, the company will try to focus only on smartphone manufacturing. Li told local media that Coolpad's mobile device shipments in the entire year of 2011 is […]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has published its performance report for the third quarter of 2011, stating that from January to September 2011, the company realized operating revenue of CNY383.846 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%. The report also showed that during the first three quarters of 2011, China Mobile's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, […]

Zhang Zhiqiang, president for Nokia Siemens Networks Greater China, has revealed to the Chinese local media that during the second quarter of 2011, the company's sales in China reached EUR402 million, a year-on-year increase of 13%. According to Nokia Siemens Networks' latest financial report, the company gained operating revenue of EUR3.642 billion in the second […]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has signed cooperating agreements with five mobile phone retail channel providers in Guangdong. The five mobile phone retail chain enterprises include Shenzhen Hengbo, Guangdong Dadi, Dongguan Jietong, Guangdong Junhe, and Guangdong Longyue. This is reportedly the first time for China Unicom to sign comprehensive strategic cooperating agreements with regional mobile […]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China. China Unicom reportedly started the development of the operating system and the basic […]

ZTE Corporation will soon jointly introduce China Unicom's multi-platform, multi-device application store called the "WoStore" into Hong Kong. "With a unique advantageous WCDMA network, China Unicom is optimistic about the potential of its WoStore service," said ZTE Vice President Yu Yifang. "ZTE is honored to be the sole partner for the online service platform and […]

According to related files provided by China Unicom Beijing branch, the company has completed the construction of 5,200 WCDMA macrocellular base stations and nearly 6,000 microcellular base stations in Beijing, boasting the largest WCDMA local network in the world by number and scale of base stations. China Unicom Beijing's 3G signals have reportedly covered all […]

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 […]

According to statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of May 2010, the number of China's 3G users had reached 21.9 million, an increase of 8.642 million compared with the end of 2009. In addition, China's 3G networks added 2.3 million new users in May 2010, an increase of […]

Mats H Olsson, Ericsson's head of China and Northeast Asia, said during the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum held in Shanghai from May 17 to May 18, 2010, that Ericsson has decided not to enter the Chinese CDMA equipment market again.
Early in 2005, Ericsson announced that in would gradually withdraw from the CDMA market. However, in […]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has published its annual financial report for 2009, stating that its sales worldwide increased by 19% year-on-year to CNY149.1 billion.
The report shows that in 2009 Huawei realized net profit of CNY18.3 billion, its net profit rate was 12.2%, and its operating profit rate was 14.1%.
Promoted by the 3G network […]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has announced that its first flagship store under its 3G brand "Wo" has been opened in Beijing.
Located in the southern hall of China Unicom's headquarters building in the Financial Street, the three-floor Wo flagship retail store covers a total area of about 800 square meters. So far, 56 types of […]