China Telecom

BEIJING-China’s telecom scene is in flux. China Telecom is to split into four parts, which will compete in two year’s time. China Unicom took over four experimental CDMA networks from China Telecom Great Wall and is making aggressive plans to …

China Unicom, which received the go-ahead from the Chinese government earlier this year to deploy cdmaOne technology, will gain control of four experimental Code Division Multiple Access networks operated by China Telecom Great Wall. Great Wall was a source of …

BEIJING-In early February, China’s Minister of Information Industry (MII) was apologetic about the prospects for CDMA in his country. The customers couldn’t care less which technology is used-as long as it works, said Wu Jichuan. And with the world’s largest …

BEIJING (AP)-China announced the breakup last week of the government’s telecommunications monopoly into four specialized companies, a move that comes as U.S. and Chinese negotiators hold down-to-the-wire talks on China’s bid to join the World Trade Organization. The long-awaited decision …

BEIJING-Chinese officials may be close to deciding how to split up China Telecom, the government-run telecommunications company. Chinese newspapers last week reported that a plan to split the company into four independent parts seemed to be on its way to …

BEIJING-“The investigation into China Unicom’s unprincipled and wrong foreign fund-raising practices has been completed,” Wang Jianzhou, director of the planning department of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII), announced at a press conference in Beijing on 1 December. That’s …

A move by the Chinese government is sure to develop a new wireless telecommunications landscape in China but also may create an uncertain future for foreign wireless infrastructure and handset vendors selling equipment there. The Chinese government is urging the …

Some analysts are expecting Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure spending to taper off in 1999 as cdmaOne infrastructure deployments in China remain questionable. “I think China is the lynch pin for CDMA infrastructure going into next year and to a …

China has been considered a mountain of opportunity for mobile phone infrastructure vendors, but signs today indicate a bleaker outlook as Chinese officials seem to have soured on cdmaOne technology and have banned certain foreign joint ventures in telecommunications projects. …

NEW YORK-At least in the short run, prospects for deployment of large-scale Code Division Multiple Access networks in the People’s Republic of China are on hold. However, the longer-term outlook could be brighter, according to Boston-based Information Gatekeepers Inc., which …

An old Chinese saying may be relevant to the commercialization of CDMA mobile phone networks in China-“Those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know”-at least on the record. When will Code Division Multiple Access networks be launched …

BEIJING-In its latest proposal to gain entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO), China offered on 24 July to open gradually its paging and mobile phone operating services to foreign competition. Currently, foreign companies only are allowed to engage in …

BEIJING-China Telecom announced it signed up its 20 millionth mobile phone customer, a police officer named Zhang Qinghua in the scenic city of Hangzhou, at precisely 8: 45 a.m. on 18 August. In the first half of the year, China …

Across most of the world’s regions, carriers and analysts are claiming prepaid cellular a resounding success. Along with calling party pays, it is considered one of the leading contributors to current subscriber growth. Some carriers now are getting more than …

BEIJING-China Telecom is still very much a monopoly carrier in China, but change is on the horizon. By year-end, the new Ministry of Information Industry will have concluded its massive restructuring and finally may be ready to accept a sweeping …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded several contracts in China to provide Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure. They include a $21 million contract to increase system capacity by 180,000 in the Shanxi province, a trial Rapid …

BANGKOK, Thailand-Cellular and PCS operators in the Asia-Pacific region have doubled from 56 in 1993 to the current 113, according to the Yankee Group’s recently released “Asia-Pacific Wireless Series.” The research firm expects the region will house 184 million users …

China Telecom (Hong Kong) in late April announced the purchase of Jiangsu Mobile Communication for US$2.9 billion. China Telecom said the purchase gives it close to 4.8 million cellular subscribers in China, according to The Wall Street Journal. Jiangsu, one …

BEIJING-In the wireless world, China no longer is a forgotten backwater, but is rapidly moving to center stage. According to the new Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the country had a 92-percent growth rate last year, bringing total mobile users …

Loral Space & Communications said it will increase its ownership in Globalstar L.P. to 42 percent, establish a US$210 million fund to reinvest in the mobile satellite service project and add the Soros funds as a significant investor in Globalstar. …

GlobalStar Telecommunications Ltd. announced that China Telecom Group Ltd. has agreed to invest $37.5 million to become a full partner in Globalstar L.P. China Telecom, which provides fixed and wireless services in China, along with China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp., …

BEIJING-Northern Telecom Ltd. said its focus at the 1998 Second China CDMA International Summit will be on third-generation wireless services. The summit, which opened March 23 and continued through March 25, is endorsed by China’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications …

BEIJING-“Please come in, sir, and have a look. The cheapest prices and the best choice.” No, we have not discovered Beijing’s red-light district, and the time is not midnight. We have come to Xizhimen, an area where narrow streets are …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it completed tests for Code Division Multiple Access intersystem network roaming in Beijing. The tests were conducted jointly with China Telecom Greatwall Network, which is a cooperative entity between China’s Ministry of …

It is unclear whether the wireless communications industry will be recession proof in the Asia-Pacific region if certain currencies there continue to fall taking economic growth with them. Beginning with the devaluation of the Thai baht in July, currency values …