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 [...]
Third-generation (3G) mobile telecom licenses are to be issued to Chinese operators at the beginning of next year, Li Yizhong, minister for industry and information technology, announced Friday. As expected, China Mobile will receive a license for TD-SCDMA, China’s homegrown 3G standard. China Unicom and China Telecom will receive licenses for [...]
The Apple iPhone handsets set to be released by China Mobile in the mainland market may lack the 3G and Wi-Fi network functionality found in the phones elsewhere, as phones with those functions have not yet been approved by regulators in Beijing, citing the Daiwa Institute of Research. Daiwa analyst Calvin Huang was cited as [...]