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 China Telecom has fixed-line and (the outdated) CDMA issues – which won’t be solved by an EV-DO upgrade next year.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.
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]