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News on China’s Telecom Industry

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Communication breakdown

Mobile warfare rages as battle for 3G dominance heats up
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

Mainland business leaders are firm believers in the adage “the marketplace is a battlefield”. And when it comes to winning the battle, there’s no place for sportsmanship. Look no further than China’s telecom sector, where China Mobile ...

iPhone or oPhone?

Will Unicom steal a 3G march on rivals with Apple’s popular device?
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

Alas, a courtship that never led to marriage. For the last couple of years, Apple has been flirting with China Mobile – the world’s largest telecom operator – to launch its popular iPhone in the mainland. But to no avail. Apple has ...

Netting new subscribers?

A pedestrian response to 3G so far – most worryingly, for China Mobile
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

It was only 10 years ago that a mobile phone would have drawn a crowd in China. Mention of the internet would have drawn blank looks, too. Times have changed. Young and old are now not only shouting into their phones, they are also using them ...

Why Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei is arguably China’s most successful CEO
May 15, 2009 (WiC 15)

Dale Carnegie’s best selling book, How to Win Friends and Influence People is probably not at the top of Ren Zhengfei’s reading list. The reclusive founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, China’s largest telecom equipment maker, is a man ...

Always be selling

How China Unicom added 48,162 new sales staff at no extra cost
Apr 9, 2009 (WiC 10)

Zhou Hua, an employee at China Unicom believes that he has the world’s most stressful job: “When I open my eyes every morning, I feel like I owe the company a lot of money.” Zhou (not his real name) is one of the 48,162 employees at the ...

Farm hand phone

Why 44 million farmers bought mobile phones
Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8)

Maybe not everyone in China’s countryside wants a washing machine or a microwave, but apparently most need a mobile phone. Since January, the Chinese government has been offering rural consumers a 13% rebate on purchases of TVs, washing ...

Not smart enough

Why a low cost mobile service is to be phased out
Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5)

For generations, overly-precocious English children were berated by parents for being “too smart for their own good”. Conversely a telephone service in China – called ‘Little Smart’ – simply isn’t smart enough, according to the ...

Home team advantage?

Domestic handset and equipment makers hope to benefit from 3G
Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3)

According to an old Chinese proverb, the first generation makes the wealth, and the third generation destroys it. China will be hoping this rule of thumb doesn’t apply to third generation mobile telephony, or 3G as it is better known. After ...

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