Alcatel-Lucent said it has been selected, together with Datang Mobile, to deploy mobile networks for China Mobile in 11 Chinese provinces.
The group will launch China Mobile’s phase three mobile networks running on TD-SCDMA, China’s homegrown third generation mobile standard. In a public statement, Alcatel-Lucent said, “With this win, the consortium expands its market footprint and [...]
Motorola announced that it has signed a one-year US$310 million deal with China Mobile to provide telecommunications products and services.
China Mobile will use Motorola’s products to develop infrastructure for existing second-generation (2G) networks using GSM, GPRS and EDGE technologies. Additional equipment and services are intended to smooth the transition between 2G and 3G networks. [...]
China Mobile announced plans to invest 31 billion yuan in Shanghai over the next three years.
The telecom firm will help Shanghai improve its telecommunications infrastructure for the upcoming Shanghai Expo 2010 and assist the city in meeting its goal of becoming China’s official global financial center. Investments will include the deployment of 100,000 wireless POS/ATM [...]
China Mobile on Monday called for a third round of tenders for third generation (3G) telecom equipment worth US$1.3 billion.
The third round of bids calls for 39,000 base stations operating on homegrown 3G technology TD-SCDMA in about 290 prefecture-level cities. This construction could bring TD-SCDMA, widely seen as the least mature of the three licensed [...]
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced that China will discontinue its wireless personal handphone system (PHS) system to make room for the TD-SCDMA third-generation wireless service. Introduced in 1998, the PHS system, known as Xiaolingtong, was designed as a low-cost alternative to other mobile technologies provided by China Mobile and China Unicom. [...]
China on Thursday announced 15 new policies meant to support its homegrown third generation (3G) mobile technology standard TD-SCDMA. The measures, announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), will benefit the world’s largest mobile network operator, China Mobile, which received a TD-SCDMA license earlier this month. Key among the measures was the [...]
China Mobile plans to invest US$8.6 billion building 60,000 new third-generation (3G) mobile communications base stations. China Mobile says the investment will increase the number of China Mobile’s 3G base stations to 80,000. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology awarded China Mobile a license Wednesday to operate a 3G network based on domestically developed [...]
China issued third generation (3G) mobile phone technology licenses to three state-owned telecom operators yesterday. As expected, China Mobile received a licence for TD-SCDMA, the domestically-developed 3G standard, while China Telecom will use the US-developed CDMA2000 and China Unicom will use Europe’s WCDMA. All three standards should allow for faster data downloads, enabling video phone calls [...]
China could grant licenses for third-generation (3G) mobile services as early as today, according to unidentified sources close to the telecom companies. Licenses have been delayed due to problems with the development of the home-grown TD-SCDMA 3G technology. The announcement of licenses may be announced simultaneously by operators China Mobile, [...]
Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said China will spend US$40 billion on third-generational (3G) mobile communications networks over the next two years. Li said China would provide “strong support” to TD-SCDMA, a 3G standard developed in China, suggesting that domestic firms may benefit more from the spending than their international counterparts. Earlier [...]
