About a year after China issued 3G licenses to its three national carriers iSuppli predicts wireless data revenue in the country will rise to $19.3 billion in 2009, up from $16.3 billion in 2008. It’s a big opportunity for device makers, app companies and the carriers. Read More »
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China Mobile has become the first wireless carrier in the world to cross the 500 million subscriber-mark. The company has added 45.7 million new subscribers so far in 2009, and now has 502.9 million subscribers. (Photo by Oskay via Flickr.) Read More »
For the past few years I have been saying that we are amidst a Titanic shift in the telecom landscape; the center of gravity moving away from the U.S., leading to the rise of new telecom giants which in turn is fueling the rise… Read More »
Three Chinese mobile networks plan to spend a total of 280 billion yuan ($41 billion) over the next two years building out 3G networks, for which the government will announce licenses at the end of 2008 or in early 2009. Plans like that would normally… Read More »
We have been following the emergence of 4G technologies pretty closely, including the looming battle between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE). As part of this continuing coverage, we are going to give you short updates on these technologies and current carrier plans. Stacey… Read More »
Since everybody likes lists, here are the 10 things you need to know about the 4G technology known as Long-Term Evolution, or LTE, standard. It began in 2004 as the next-generation networking technology pushed by the 3GPP It’s fast — with peak data rates of 1o0 Mbps… Read More »
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