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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it won a US$34.8 million contract from China Unicom to expand the carrier's 800 MHz CDMA networks in the Hebei province.In May, Motorola had won a US$407 million contract in 11 provinces in the country, including Beijing.

SHANGHAI, China—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has demonstrated its first cdma2000 1x call for voice and data in China.Lucent said it is collaborating with China Unicom to demonstrate the mobile Internet services for visitors at a temporary exhibit center at the Shanghai Sofitel Hyland...

BEIJING—Hong Kong-listed China Mobile (HK) and its parent company China Mobile Communications expect to have a combined 100 million subscribers by year-end. China Unicom, which is also listed in Hong Kong, and its parent company China United Telecommunications count on 50 million customers.China Unicom...

BEIJING—A plan, first floated by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), to eventually merge China Unicom and China Railcom has been put on hold and may not materialize for several years, if at all.During the past couple of years, China Unicom managed to grab...

BEIJING—China is set to establish a new high-level commission to formulate long-term development plans for the telecommunications sector. The commission would include Vice President Hu Jintao, Vice Premier Li Lanqing and Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan.The initiative would take power away from the...

BEIJING—Hong Kong listed China Unicom's first-half earnings surged to CNY2.19 billion (US$265 million), but fell short of analysts' predictions of CNY2.25 billion (US$272 million). Mother company China Unicom reported a CNY13.62 billion (US$1.65 billion) revenue, a 30-percent increase compared with last year.In the first-half...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Days after receiving approval from the Chinese government for its CDMA repeater technology, Repeater Technologies Inc. received an $11 million order to provide its OA850C Network Repeaters to Capitel Group Ltd. of Beijing for China Unicom.China Unicom is expected to use the repeaters...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Repeater Technologies Inc. was granted a Network Industry License by China's Ministry of Information Industry, allowing its OA850C Network Repeater to be used in China Unicom's CDMA network. The license affirms the compatibility of the equipment with the public network.The company's repeater received...

AlcatelParis. With Orascom Telecom for the supply and installation of GSM solutions in the Middle East and Africa.Value: Undisclosed. Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800/GPRS network in Brazil.Value: US$275 millionMoscow. With ZAO SMARTS for GSM 900 MHz solutions to extend networks in the...

BEIJING, China-Amid slowing subscriber growth worldwide, China still shows a healthy increase in mobile-phone users. The country's two mobile-phone operators are each offering new services-one General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the other CDMA. Handset manufacturing is also soaring, with domestic suppliers narrowing the still...

BOSTON, United States—The Yankee Group said CDMA technology is secure in China with a projected 55 million subscribers by the end of 2005 and China Unicom being the flagship operator of the technology.However, there will be challenges."As the only major operator in the world...

BEIJING—China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) issued the first network connection certificate for CDMA wireless intelligent network equipment to Zhongxing Telecom for its ZXC10-IN wireless IN-offering.The network equipment has been tested by Unicom Horizon Communications, the China Unicom subsidiary contracted to build a 15.5...

BEIJING—Motorola (China) and China Unicom recently signed a long-term cooperation agreement. Both companies want to cooperate on data communications, network optimization and unified management of the GSM and CDMA networks. They also view the handset market, branding and training as areas of cooperation.Since April...

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications and SBC Communications Inc. held onto their respective first- and second-place rankings for profitability for 2000, according to research from Standard & Poor's.Deutsche Telekom-which was not listed on RCR Wireless News' stock chart in 2000 and therefore not among the major...

WASHINGTON-China, the world's largest potential wireless export market, is on the verge of entering the World Trade Organization as officials wrap up negotiations to culminate a process that has been 15 years in the making.WTO officials last week said talks on China's application for...

AlcatelChina. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a national network.Value: US$157 millionChina. With Gansu Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Ning Xia Mobile for GSM expansion contracts.Value: UndisclosedThailand. With CP Orange for a nationwide GSM 1800 MHz network.Value: US$332 millionDatangChina. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a...

Wireless giants CMG, Comverse, Ericsson, Logica, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens are partnering to raise awareness of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and to promote the technology's development in an open global market. MMS combines audio and video clips, photographs and images with text messaging. The...

HONG KONG-Not even torrential rains around portions of Hong Kong could dampen the spirits of CDMA supporters at the 3G World Congress. Even with the lack of sunshine outside, to go along with the lack of CDMA coverage for roaming, most attendees seemed bright...

TOKYO-Japanese telecom firm KDDI Corp. has agreed to cooperate with China Unicom Ltd. on mobile-phone and Internet access technologies, according to international press reports.KDDI uses CDMA technology, and China Unicom last month signed contracts with wireless vendors to build out the first CDMA network...

In the United States, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed telephone companies to deliver video programming and cable companies to provide phone service. But even though the 1996 telecom act opened up competition, the United States' $100 billion telephone industry still had some big...

INDONESIALucent Technologies Inc. has signed two contracts with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk to build its nationwide intelligent network and multimedia access infrastructure valued at $17.5 million. "We are pleased to have new supply agreements with Lucent Technologies," said Muhammad Nazif, president director, PT Telkom.CANADATelus...

With four big CDMA infrastructure contracts ramped up last week by China Unicom, the country's second-largest operator, the Asian nation is on pace to race past the United States as the biggest wireless market in the world.The contracts, penned with Lucent Technologies Inc., L.M....

AlcatelBrazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800 network in the area from Piau

BEIJING-Once again there seems to be a significant delay in China Unicom's rollout of its CDMA network. The much-plagued endeavor was on track just a couple of weeks ago, when Unicom invited tenders for the first phase of the project to the tune of...