China Mobile
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2012 6:13 AM
Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China Telecom, says that it will start to sell the iPhone 4S by the end of this month or early March.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 22, 2011 7:23 AM
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has a substantial operation in China, but it has yet to take its Kindle e-reader into that market. That has left the door open for several other players to make a move into country’s market for e-books. The latest news in that department is that mobile handset…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 18, 2011 5:51 AM
China has become an increasingly important part of Apple’s empire, and today it looks like the company has taken one more step to growing that even more: the company is now accepting payments in Chinese Yuan on its App Store.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 1, 2011 6:40 AM
T-Mobile is the last major carrier in the U.S. not to have the iPhone—a consequence of the device’s radio chipsets being different from those that work on T-Mobile’s 3G network. The operator seems resigned to this fact, but things could be different if it looks east to China, and takes…
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Tom Krazit
Sep 14, 2011 4:36 PM
China Mobile’s desire to have its own flavor of a wireless standard dovetails nicely with Clearwire’s desperate need for assistance in shifting its technology away from a losing bet. A new deal between the two companies would give Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) a chance to make sure it has access to…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 25, 2011 11:56 AM
A new infographic from Guohe Ad, a mobile ad mediation specialist in China, tries to shed a little light on to how well two popular mobile platforms are performing when it comes to in-app advertising.
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 17, 2011 10:26 AM
Bit by bit, we are starting to get a better idea of what Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to do to reassert itself in the mobile phone market in the months ahead. In the past few days, we’ve learned of an operator partnership with China Mobile; a new focus at a…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 17, 2011 6:51 AM
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Kodak: Looks like Kodak investors might really have something to smile about: it is apparently now being eyed up as a breakup target, with a patent portfolio worth possibly $3 billion, against the whole company currently valued at only…
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Ingrid Lunden
May 20, 2011 6:27 AM
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch a long-awaited NFC payment service; Verizon gets its first Windows Phone 7 device; and is the first 4G iPhone going to appear in China?
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Ingrid Lunden
Apr 11, 2011 7:57 AM
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: the iPhone is the current best-seller at Verizon while some are murmuring about the HTC Thunderbolt keep a connection on Verizon’s LTE network; Steve Jobs’ biography; China Mobile and SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) team up for mobile content; and…
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Tricia Duryee
Aug 19, 2010 1:55 PM
Even China Mobile, which is adding 4 to 5 million new mobile subscribers a month and has a subscriber base of 500 million users in a country with 800 million subscribers, is worried about what happens when everyone has a mobile phone. To that end, it’s investing in 3G data…
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Dianne See Morrison
Apr 13, 2009 5:18 AM
So that’s where Dell phones might end up. Computer maker Dell has been hinting for a few months now that it will enter the smartphone market, though it was reported that American carriers were unimpressed by its first efforts, rejecting them as “too Dell-like.” But what may be boring in…
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James Quintana Pearce
Apr 1, 2009 3:15 PM
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has joined the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), an initiative set up a year ago by Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Softbank and China Mobile to create a single global platform for developers to encourage the creation of a wide range of innovative and useful mobile widgets. The widgets…
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Dianne See Morrison
Mar 19, 2009 8:19 AM
China Mobile reported full year earnings on Wednesday, posting a less-than-expected 30 percent increase in net profit, which rose to 112.80 billion yuan ($16.5 billion), up from 87.10 billion in 2007. Revenue climbed 16 percent to 412.34 billion yuan. But growth at the world’s largest mobile carrier is slowing. Bloomberg…
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Dianne See Morrison
Mar 6, 2009 8:27 AM
China Mobile has offered to help fund handset makers Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Samsung, LG (SEO: 066570) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) to conduct research and development that could lead to a wider range of more technologically advanced TD-SCDMA phones that China’s dominant mobile operator needs if it is…
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Dianne See Morrison
Feb 9, 2009 7:51 AM
Will the iPhone ever officially make it to China? The wrangling between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and China Mobile, the country’s overwhelmingly dominant network operator, to launch the iPhone in the world’s largest mobile market has been long reported. Now, we’re getting a little more detail as to what the sticking…
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Tricia Duryee
Jan 27, 2009 5:32 PM
If Vodafone’s idea of working together more with China Mobile and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) means rushing out a phone full of bugs—like the BlackBerry Storm—to market, it should probably reconsider. But Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) today said it is indeed trying to bring the three global superpower telcos together to…
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Tricia Duryee
Nov 18, 2008 12:43 PM
China Mobile, which has more subscribers than there are U.S. residents, is looking replicate the success of the iPhone App store on a much grander scale. At this point, there’s probably very few operators and handset manufactures that aren’t trying to open up a content and application store on the…
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Dianne See Morrison
Oct 24, 2008 10:31 AM
China Mobile plans to release an Android handset built by Chinese handset maker Lenovo Mobile between February and March 2009, writes Pacific Epoch, citing a ChinaByte story that quotes Lenovo Mobile brand commuication department GM Wang Yan. Recent stories have surfaced that China Mobile would release an Android handset at…
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Dianne See Morrison
Oct 23, 2008 5:35 AM
Some interesting content stats from China’s largest carrier China Mobile. The carrier, which has some 436 million subscribers at the end of September 2008, reported that it had over 100 million registered users for its mobile instant messaging tool Fetion. Its music service had 80 million users in the first…
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