Two of China’s Mobile Operators to shrink in 2009??
By Ben Robinson on Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 at 4:44 AM PST In Carriers
Now that’s something I never thought I’d read – particularly in the ecomony that is lauded to be outpacing pretty much all others globally…
Beiijing-based research firm BDA says that China Telecom and Unicom may see “negative revenue growth”. China Telecom has fixed-line and (the outdated) CDMA issues – which won’t be solved by an EV-DO upgrade next year. Unicom on the other hand just hasn’t been growing much, compared with the likes of the dominant China Mobile (NYSE: CHL).
Of course, pricing strategies will play heavily in to what happens in 2009 – but with China Mobile having the only TD-SCDMA (a government-backed) standard network, you’ve got wonder how things are going to play out…
[Via: telecomasia.net]
