MacDailyNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
Approximately 1 million unlocked iPhones brought into China from overseas are being used on China Mobile...
Matt's blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
China's GPS Handset Market Growing Rapidly InformationWeek, NY - 2 hours ago China is the world's largest cell phone market , with China Mobile having over 300 million subscribers. While many of these subscribers utilize entry-level ...
Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
China Mobile (NYSE: CHL, 941.HK) has partnered with the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) to add China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) chips to TD-SCDMA phones to enable TD-SCDMA users to watch mobile TV on the CMMB standard, reports Sohu quoting SARFT vice director Sun...
China 3G Telecom Market Report (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
China Thwarts All Efforts to Ambush Games AdAge.com (subscription) - 1 hour ago It has ordered China Telecom, which controls fixed-line telecom services; China Mobile, the world's-largest mobile-phone service provider; and internet ...
ChinaTechNews.com (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has give the authorization to China Mobile to use mobile phone numbers that begin with 188 in TD-SCDMA. This 188 number field was originally given to China Netcom by MIIT for the internal tests of the trial network of TD-SCDMA. Over the internal test period, the number fields of [...]
Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Tencent (700.HK) has partnered with China Mobile (NYSE: CHL, 941.HK) to hold an online questionnaire about 3G service between July 4 and July 25, reports qq.com. Three hundred people who take the quiz will be able to participate in China Mobile's TD-SCDMA trial activity. Users are able to participate...
Ring Nokia (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Like they're not already the largest mobile operator in the world in terms of revenue (China Mobile has more subscribers), Vodafone is acquiring 70% stake in a leading Ghana's telecommunications operator, Ghana Telecom, from the Government of Ghana for $900 million (which would get to keep the remaining 30% of the company). Ghana Telecom is number [...]
Wall Street Pit (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
According to industry reports, in five years, more than 30% of mobile phone subscribers in China will be reading books and newspapers through their phones. The combination of greater 3G adoption and a marked increase in made-for-mobile content will drive mobile entertainment revenues to almost $48 billion by 2010. Reports additionally forecast that 90% of Chinese [...]
News & Information (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
There is not long left for Anil Ambani to fulfil his ambition to create an emerging markets telecoms group to rival China Mobile. The 45-day period of exclusive due diligence that Reliance Communications……Read more
Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
China Mobile (NYSE: CHL, 941.HK) has acquired mobile numbers starting with "188" for its TD-SCDMA network, reports qq.com. China Mobile will likely begin releasing these numbers nationwide after it releases TD-SCDMA numbers in Qingdao and Baoding in mid-July, said the report. Including the newly obtained...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Unlocked, semi-legal iPhones have proliferated in China while Apple failed to make a deal with a Chinese carrier.
Ring Nokia (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The problem that the original iPhone had in cracking the potentially lucrative Chinese market was that it came leashed with a now-unreasonable revenue-sharing business model from Cupertino. China Mobile wasn't too keen on sharing revenue on a handset that it couldn't be guaranteed would be a China Mobile exclusive. Now, with the iPhone 3G following more [...]
ChinaTechNews.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Telecom just held a ceremony for the donation of one thousand China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting terminals to the Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympic Games and has formally announced plans to serve the Olympic Games with the mobile multimedia standard of CMMB. During the ceremony, SARFT displayed various terminals [...]
Engadget Mobile (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Filed under: Apple , China Mobile China Unicom aside, China Mobile is apparently still very interested in bringing the iPhone to mainland China -- and thanks to the return of the traditional revenue model for the iPhone 3G, balls are once again rolling to make that happen. China Mobile called the original iPhone's model the single biggest "hurdle" to sealing a deal, and at this point, only "practical"...
Wireless Federation (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
China Mobile Ltd. (SEHK: 0941 and NYSE: CHL) is likely to introduce the 2G iPhone to China initially, said market observers. China Mobile is in contacts with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), which is not insisting on its revenue sharing business model, said Wang Jianzhou, chairman and chief executive officer for China Mobile, in an earlier interview. Absence [...]
