BROWSING: China Mobile

BEIJING-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed a contract to supply an optical Ethernet solution to support the wireless networks of China Mobile in metropolitan Shanghai and Zhejiang province."Nortel Networks' solution will also enable the two China Mobile branches to implement storage area networking,...

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and LM Ericsson announced a rash of multimedia messaging service deals, further solidifying the companies' leadership in the MMS infrastructure space.Nokia said it will provide its MMS product to Polish operator Polkomtel and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom, and Ericsson announced a similar...

BEIJING-China's largest mobile operator China Mobile Communication Corporation (CMCC) has awarded contracts to Ericsson to supply equipment for its multimedia messaging service (MMS) centers and peripherals in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Ericsson has supplied more than 80 MMS test systems worldwide and received orders...

BEIJING-The price war between China Mobile and China Unicom is heating up across the country, except in the big metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has mandated standard charges of a 50 yuan (US$6) monthly basic fee and...

BEIJING-China's largest wireless operator China Mobile selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to expand its GSM network in Shaanxi Province as part of a $26.8 million contract.The expansion is expected to include GSM radio access and core switching equipment in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province.

BEIJING-Expansion of China's PHS network called Little Smart in the suburbs of Beijing and Tianjin has been put on hold by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), which fears a negative impact on the listed mobile-phone carriers China Mobile and China Unicom.Little Smart is...

BEIJING-Nortel Networks said it signed a US$26.8 million GSM contract to supply China Mobile with equipment for the carrier's cellular network in the Shaanxi province.The equipment, which will include radio access and core switching equipment, is designed to increase network capacity and services, such...

BEIJING-China's largest personal computer vendor Legend Group has teamed with Intel and China Mobile to offer mobile wireless Internet services in 138 cities in China and broadband mobile Internet in the four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.Legend has developed a General Packet...

BEIJING-The Shanghai Telecommunications Administration has urged the local subsidiaries of China Mobile and China Unicom to end a price war they are waging through promotional offers.Shanghai Mobile said it would halt its promotion soon, but Shanghai Unicom vowed to continue the price cuts. Both...

BEIJING-China Mobile (HK), the Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of China Mobile Communications, had 80.3 million subscribers at the end of June. More than 34.6 million were contract subscribers, and 45.69 million had bought prepaid cards.Shares of China Mobile (HK) have fallen 7.8 percent during the...

BEIJING-Li Yue, vice president of China Mobile, announced at the GSM China 2002 conference that China Mobile's customers are expected to send 50 billion short messages this year, up from 15.9 billion last year. Customers of rival China Unicom sent 3 billion messages last...

BEIJING-Following the launch of its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services on 17 May, China Mobile Communications has signed 1.3 million users, but a spokesman for China Mobile (Hong Kong) said the use of wireless data services is not significant yet.Nevertheless, China Mobile has...

BEIJING-China Mobile Communications announced it will invest 50 billion yuan (US$6 billion) in mobile-phone infrastructure in the western part of China during the next three years. During the past three years, the company has already invested 54 billion yuan (US$6.5 billion) in upgrading and...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Motorola Inc. said it has signed four contracts totaling $100.8 million to expand and upgrade GSM networks for China Mobile Communications Corporation.The contracts, which will cover GSM 900 MHz and 1800 MHz networks in provinces, such as Hubei and Yunnan, and cities,...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AB said it is joining Juniper Networks to deploy what it described as the first commercial multi-protocol Label Switching-based virtual private network for China Mobile Communications in nine cities in China.Ericsson's AXI 520 series IP backbone routers, which will be based on...

BEIJING—Siemens IC Mobile is collaborating with China Mobile to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and short message service (SMS) services to inform subscribers when goals are made in the FIFA World Cup 2002 soccer competition. Game reports, team profiles, quizzes and greeting cards will...

BEIJING—China Mobile (Hong Kong) will reap goodwill of around 40.3 billion yuan (US$4.87 billion) following the pending acquisition of eight provincial mobile networks from parent China Mobile Communications. China Mobile (HK) will pay US$8.57 billion for the networks.The company plans to amortize the goodwill...

BEIJING—The world's largest mobile market could become decidedly less attractive for cell-phone manufacturers if new proposed rules on cell-phone radiation emissions come into play.A proposed change would restrict the maximum specific absorption rate in China to 1 watt per kilogram compared with 1.6 watts...

BEIJING—The Hebei provincial subsidiary of China Mobile has chosen Nortel Networks to expand the capacity of its GSM network in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang and surrounding areas with 322,000 subscribers. The provincial total now adds up to a capacity of 6.8 million subscribers.Nortel Networks...

TOKYO—NEC, the leading handset maker in Japan, announced that it shipped 2.5-generation (2.5G) handsets for China Mobile. China Mobile is the largest mobile carrier in China with 115 million subscribers.China Mobile launched data service based on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology last week....

LONDON—Vodafone Group plc said it increased it ownership of China Mobile Hong Kong to 3.27 percent from 2.18 percent by subscribing US$750 million for new ordinary shares in the Chinese operator. China Mobile will use the proceeds to help finance its proposed acquisition of...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Both Nokia and Ericsson said they have demonstrated what they described as the first inter-operator live demonstration of multimedia messaging service (MMS) technology with leading Chinese operators.Ericsson demonstrated its technology using its Sony Ericsson T68I handset in Guangzhou over the networks of China...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Both Nokia Corp. and Ericsson AB said they have demonstrated what they described as the first inter-operator live demonstration of Multimedia Messaging Service technology with leading Chinese operators.Ericsson demonstrated its technology using its Sony Ericsson T68I handset in Guangzhou over the networks of...

BEIJING—The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced that the country added 16.69 million mobile-phone users in the first quarter of the year. There are now 160 million mobile-phone subscribers.At the end of March, telecom revenues were divided as follows: China Telecom 50.5 percent, China...