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DeNA Signs Deals with China’s Three Largest Carriers for Mobage
DeNA (TYO:2432) has been building a range of partnerships in China over the past few months in order to help expand its Mobage China social gaming platform. Today the company’s Chinese subsidiary is...
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China’s 3 Mobile Telcos Embrace Group-Messaging Apps, for Free SMS
China Telecom's new group-messaging app, which will launch next week. (Image source: Sina Tech news) The upcoming launch of a group-messaging service by China Telecom (NYSE:CHA) next week means that...
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Motorola’s MT917, With an Insane 13-Megapixel Camera, Heads to China Mobile
Motorola (NYSE:MMI) announced this afternoon that its newest Droid RAZR, the MT917, is coming to the country’s biggest mobile telco, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), in mid-December. It’ll be a...
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$50 Android Smartphones? Coming Next Month to China
A $100 Android device? That’s so passé. That’s because $50 Android smartphones are on the way for 2012. A brand-new pair of budget chipsets devised by the Chinese manufacturer Spreadtrum (NASDAQ:SPRD)...
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China Mobile Wants To Push 4G TD-LTE Network, But Can’t Get Permits
China Mobile wants their 4G TD-LTE network out soon to capitalize when the next iPhone is released. China’s biggest telecom provider, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL), has been facing a challenge from China...
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China Mobile Growth Slows, 3G Mostly to Blame
China Mobile (NYSE:CHL, HKG:0941) used to be the king of China’s telecommunications industry. Sure, Unicom and Telecom existed, but why would anyone use them when China Mobile’s coverage was so much...
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Nearly 1 Billion Served: Chinese Mobile Subscribers Approaching Major Milestone
According to a report by Reuters, China’s total amount of mobile subscribers is about to surpass – or indeed, may have already surpassed – the one billion mark. After a 1.2 percent gain in February,...
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DeNA Signs Deals with China’s Three Largest Carriers for Mobage
DeNA (TYO:2432) has been building a range of partnerships in China over the past few months in order to help expand its Mobage China social gaming platform. Today the company’s Chinese subsidiary is...
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China Mobile to Launch 4G LTE in Hong Kong Next Week
China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941) has announced that it’ll launch its 4G mobile data service over the border in Hong Kong starting next week. The 100 MBps next-generation LTE will start on April 25th,...
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New China 3G User Stats Suggest China Unicom Might Dominate By Next Year
New 3G subscriber stats for China’s two largest mobile carriers show that China Unicom (NYSE:CHU; HKG:0762) is still making good progress, hitting a new milestone in its pursuit of China Mobile...
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Report: China Mobile Picks ZTE and 3 Other Brands in New TD-SCDMA 3G Order
The ZTE U880 for China Mobile. (Image source: Zol.com.cn) China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), as the world’s biggest mobile telco by subscriber figures, often demands dozens of phone makers do a little...
View ArticleChina’s 3G Subscribers Hit 175 Million, But Is Growth Slowing?
We keep hearing China’s monthly mobile subscriber figures, each time with the totals reaching ever more impressive heights. In the first quarter of this year, the country passed a billion total...
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China Mobile Donates $2.1 Million to Children with Heart Disease
Do it for the kids! We write a lot about telecoms like China Mobile (NYSE:CHL), but it’s rare I get to write a story as pleasant as this one: the company has pledged to donate 13.5 million RMB ($2.1...
View ArticleChina Mobile Leads in 3G Subscribers, But Transition from 2G is Slow
With China’s total mobile subscribers sitting at over a billion right now, it’s interesting to look at the rate at which subscribers are coming over to 3G. Overall, it’s still a relatively slow...
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China Mobile Brings Dual-Mode 4G to Hong Kong Tomorrow
Hong Kong’s 4G landscape will get a bit more inclusive tomorrow with the roll-out of China Mobile’s (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941) dual-mode 4G network. It adds support for the TD-LTE version of mobile data...
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Check Out 3 Years of Stunning 3G Growth in China [CHART]
China has just reached 233.44 million 3G subscribers across its three mobile telcos. Digging back through the self-reported stats for each, I noticed that the end of 2009 is the earliest firm data...
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China Mobile Finally Has Over 100 Million 3G Subscribers
It took over three years to materialize, but finally it’s happened: China Mobile now has over 100 million 3G subscribers. The milestone is revealed in the newest China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941)...
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China Mobile Planning Final $6.7 Billion Push to Launch 4G in 344 Cities This...
Despite a lack of regulatory approval yet, the world’s biggest mobile telco by user-base, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941) is said to be ready to make a massive final push to get the infrastructure...
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China Mobile Preps Biggest Ever 4G Trial in Shanghai
With China Mobile thought to be keen to launch its 4G network nationwide later this year, the behemoth telco is prepping its biggest ever city-wide 4G trial to start soon – this time in Shanghai. But...
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WeChat Competitor Feixin: 100 Million Users, But Low Activity Levels
Over the past year, Tencent’s WeChat has exploded. So much so, in fact, that you might forget that other mobile messaging services were actually on the scene first. One of them, China’s Mobile’s...
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China Now Has Over 300 Million 3G Subscribers
All three of China’s mobile telcos have just released their May figures, which includes those of 3G subscribers. I notice that the huge market has hit another significant milestone – it has now...
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