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Mobile Internet Usage in China on the Rise

The usage of mobile services in China seems to grow rapidly lately, with the number of mobile phone owners to have accessed the Internet via their devices being said to have reached 181 million at end of August 2009. According to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a survey it has conducted in the Aug...

27 November 2009
10:46 GMT

TD-SCDMA to See Over 20 Million Subscribers in 2010

TD-SCDMA is one of the wireless technologies that should see a great increase in subscribers in the near future. According to Sun Yuwang, president of Leadcore Technology, a provider of TD-SCDMA solutions in China, the number of TD-SCDMA handset subscribers should increase over 20 million during the next year. China...

26 November 2009
08:58 GMT

LG Unveils GW880 OPhone for China Mobile

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has just unveiled the LG GW880, a handset that should soon become available for purchase in China via the country's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile. The new device is running under China Mobile's OPhone operating system which, most of you should know al...

25 November 2009
10:08 GMT

China Mobile Goes Official with Dell Mini 3i

Today Wireless carrier China Mobile officially announced the launch of Dell Mini 3i, a new touchscreen mobile phone that comes to the market with the operator's OPhone and Mobile Market platforms. According to the company, the new handset is set to become available for purchase in the country in Red Passio...

23 November 2009
02:26 GMT

Huawei Announces First TD-LTE/SAE Trial Network Deployment

Telecommunications infrastructure vendor Huawei announced recently the deployment of the first TD-LTE/SAE trial network for the wireless carrier China Mobile. According to the company, the new network is capable of delivering download speeds of up to 29Mb/s, and is meant to be used for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.&...

16 November 2009
14:31 GMT

Dell Announces Dell Mini 3 for China and Brazil

Computer maker Dell announced recently that it had made the first steps into the smartphone market with the launch of its new Mini 3 handsets. According to the company, the phones are to be launched in China on the airwaves of China Mobile, as well as in Brazil, with Claro, which is part of the largest mobile phone n...

14 November 2009
06:45 GMT

China Mobile to See 100 Million 3G Subscribers by 2011

China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in the country, and also the largest in the world based on the number of subscribers, is expected to reach a number of over 100 million 3G subscribers by 2011. During the 2009 Sino-Japan TD-SCDMA Collaboration Conference, Yang Hua, secretary general of the TD-SCDMA Industry ...

13 November 2009
11:09 GMT

China Mobile and Futuremark Ink Benchmark Deal

Futuremark Corporation announced today the signing of an agreement with China Mobile, aimed at the development of a new benchmarking piece of software. As you probably know by now, Futuremark is the global leading developer of performance-analysis software, as well as of services for smartphones, handheld devices and...

3 November 2009
14:41 GMT

Introducing Nokia 6788 with TD-SCDMA Support

Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today the launch of its first mobile phone that comes with support for TD-SCDMA, China's domestic 3G standard, namely the Nokia 6788. The new handset has been developed in collaboration with China Mobile, the largest carrier in the world when it comes t...

27 October 2009
05:23 GMT

Nokia Siemens Networks Announces TD-LTE Femtocell Demo

Infrastructure solutions provider Nokia Siemens Networks and wireless carrier China Mobile have announced today that they managed to successfully complete the world’s first TD-LTE femtocell demonstration. According to the duo, their demonstration proved that future mobile broadband could come with impressive in...

21 September 2009
07:30 GMT

China Mobile’s OPhone Series Boasts Marvell Chips

Wireless carrier China Mobile announced not too long ago the launch of its first handsets powered by a home-made version of Google's Android operating system, which are called OPhones. The new handsets are expected to perform quite well on the market, much to the detriment of Apple's iPhone sales, yet to th...

17 September 2009
18:01 GMT

China Mobile and the Symbian Foundation Announce Collaboration

China Mobile, the world's largest carrier when it comes to the number of subscribers, together with the Symbian Foundation announced today their collaboration on the improvement of the mobile ecosystem in the country. At the same time, the agreement between the two is also aimed at stimulating the development of...

9 September 2009
08:23 GMT

China Mobile Unveils Its First OPhones

China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in the country, and the largest in the world when it comes to the number of subscribers, has recently unveiled some of the handsets that will come to the market under its own OS, called Ophone (an Android-based platform). Among the companies that will come to the market with...

1 September 2009
04:43 GMT

More Details on Dell's Smartphone Emerge

Computer maker Dell has been recently rumored to plan on releasing on the Chinese market a smartphone running under Google's Android operating system. The handset is expected to surface one of these days, and some more details on it have emerged on the Web, showing that it will indeed sport an Android OS, while ...

11 August 2009
04:49 GMT

Motorola Announces Frame Agreement with China Mobile

Motorola, Inc., a leading provider of mobile telecommunication equipment, services and handsets, announced on Wednesday that it had signed a one-year frame agreement with China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) to deliver mobile solutions to the carrier. According to the deal, sealed on April 27, 2009 in Washi...

14 May 2009
04:49 GMT

China Mobile Launches App Store This Year

China Mobile has recently confirmed that it has plans to release its own application store before the end of the ongoing year, based on the fact that it is making great progress with the roll-out of its 3G networks, built on the China-developed standard called TD-SCDMA, says IDG News. A company spokesperson is report...

22 April 2009
05:49 GMT

Android-Based Ophone to Be Launched in China in May

Mobile phone users in China will soon have yet another nice-looking smartphone to enjoy, namely the Ophone. According to the latest news on the Web, the handset is expected to be launched in the country as soon as May, running under Google's Android operating system. Given the handset's great looks, there ...

22 April 2009
03:30 GMT

Dell to Sell Smartphones in China

The second largest computer maker in the world, Dell, is expected to come to the market with a series of smartphones during the ongoing year, which have been previously reported as “not too appealing” to wireless carriers in the US. According to the latest news on the Web, the giant manufacturer intends t...

14 April 2009
02:40 GMT

HTC Magic to Land in China in May

The second Google phone in the world, HTC Magic, will soon become available on the Chinese market. The device is expected to be added to China Mobile's offering, the largest mobile phone operator in the country, and will become available under the name of Dopod G2 (this is the name under which the company sells ...

19 March 2009
09:19 GMT

China Mobile to Invest $8.6 Billion in 3G This Year

China's largest telecom operator, China Mobile, announced recently that it planned on investing around 8.6 billion dollars this year in the development of the third-generation network. As already reported last week, the company was granted a license for the Chinese-developed TD-SCDMA standard for 3G. The carrier...

14 January 2009
09:18 GMT

Android Based Smartphone by Lenovo for China Mobile

Since Lenovo's cellphone department was taken over by Hony Capital, as we already informed you in an earlier article, the mobile manufacturer has been working very hard on building a really influential name for itself in the cellphone business. Now, it has partnered up with China Mobile to release a promising An...

15 December 2008
02:22 GMT

Nokia and China Mobile Will Release TD-SDCMA Phones

TD-SCDMA handsets created by Nokia will soon be coming to China, and it looks like the reign of exclusivity around this kind of handsets has ended for Samsung and LG, which have been, until now, the only foreign companies supplying China.China Mobile's Chairman and Chief Executive Wang Jianzhou declared that the...

18 November 2008
06:08 GMT

China Mobile May Offer Android Handsets

Sources in Taiwan were kind enough to offer some information about China Mobile's plans for the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. Here is what we’ve been able to find out so far.The largest operator of mobile communication services in China, China Mobile Communications, is very likely to offer Android...

29 September 2008
10:35 GMT

Nokia Introduces New 6122c Handset

Nokia has just announced the launch of the Nokia 6122c, exclusively available for China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC). As an S60 multimedia device, the Nokia 6122c offers CMCC customers rich entertainment features and powerful applications scalable ability. With CMCC keys specifically dedicated to the Inte...

6 May 2008
03:47 GMT

Ericsson Expands China Mobile's And China Unicom's Networks

Ericsson unveiled today that it has signed two "GSM expansion framework agreements" with China Mobile and China Unicom, the giant Chinese mobile operators. The agreements were announced during a ceremony in Beijing, attended by Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, and Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden's Prime Minister. The...

14 April 2008
10:25 GMT

No iPhone for China Mobile, This Time for Good

Apple and China Mobile have been discussing to bring the iPhone on the Chinese market since November 2007. At a given moment, the discussions stopped, but the fact seemed possible at the end of the last year. However, now it's clear that China Mobile will not be an iPhone carrier, as the two companies have offic...

14 January 2008
07:27 GMT

China Mobile Still In Talks With Apple

When China mobile first announced that it had begun talks with Apple over the iPhone, it was pretty big news, considering the potential of the market. When reports appeared that the talks have ended with no agreement, it was not a particularly huge surprise, considering how different the dynamics of the Chinese mobi...

3 December 2007
10:30 GMT

EUR 180 Million GSM and EDGE Deal for Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks has just closed a EUR 180 million contract with Henan Mobile Communications Company (Henan MCC), the wholly owned subsidiary of China Mobile. This means that the company will be involved even more from now on in the development of China's GSM and EDGE networks.Nokia Siemens Networks alread...

26 September 2007
06:49 GMT

USD 1 Billion Deal Between Ericsson and China Mobile

Ericsson has signed an agreement with China Mobile in order to make possible the expansion on a new telecommunications market. The GSM framework agreement has been reached at a ceremony which took place in Sweden.As a result, Ericsson will provide core and radio network equipment in order to make it possible for Chin...

11 June 2007
02:11 GMT

AsiaInfo to Develop Mobile Device Management Platform for China Mobile

AsiaInfo, a provider of telecom software solutions and IT security products and services, announced it has signed a contract with China Mobile to develop its national mobile device management platform. AsiaInfo will provide system integration services as well as billing, network management, and analysis software."Mob...

19 April 2007
10:15 GMT

Jiangsu Wuxi Mobile Selects CDC Mobile as Mobile Content Provider

CDC Mobile announced it has entered into a mobile content agreement with Jiangsu Wuxi Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile. As part of the agreement, CDC Mobile will provide the carrier with rich MMS and WAP content, including ringtones, graphics, weather forecast, and more. CDC Mobile will also send the content on t...

16 April 2007
10:07 GMT

China Mobile's Subscriber Base Surpasses the US' Population

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator has announced that its customer base has grown up to 301 million, which means that it has now surpassed the total population of the US. Julie Pohlig, senior analyst at Vital Wave Consulting claims that the 300 million person milestone provides perspective on the ...

6 April 2007
04:36 GMT


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