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China Mobile building the world’s largest call centre

China Mobile has started building what it claims to be the world’s largest single site call center. When completed, the new center will house some 20,000 desks in the city of Luoyang in central China’s Henan province. Located in the Luoyang Economic Development Zone, the center covers an area of almost 710,700 square meters, with a planned floor space of about 500,000 square meters. After the two-phase construction, the call center will provide at least 60,000 jobs. The facility is part of a project to consolidate the world’s largest operator’s Read more

China Telecom launching its MVNO in the UK on Everything Everywhere’s network

Just as we reported, China Telecom is preparing to launch its MVNO in the UK, marking the first time a Chinese operator has launched MVNO services outside of its domestic market. China’s largest fixed-line network and third-largest mobile operator will use Everything Everywhere’s network to provide services in Chinese languages, as well as international calls back to China and services for callers in China to contact mobile users in the UK. According to the company’s Yan Ou (Managing Director of China Telecom Europe), there’s is a real gap in the Read more

Nokia N801T heading to China Mobile with Symbian Anna and NFC

Nokia announced a new Symbian Anna smartphone in China that’s ready for NFC-based contactless payments. In addition, the device marked as 801T rocks a 4-inch ClearBlack LCD touchscreen, China Mobile-friendly TD-SCDMA connectivity, 8-megapixel “full-focus” camera with 720p video recording support on the back, VGA front-facing camera, 8GB of built-in storage, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 256MB of RAM, 3.5mm headset jack, and a microSD card slot with hot swap support. Moreover, there’s mobile TV capability which is enabled with an awkward lookin’ external antenna. All in all, the Nokia N801T is a Read more

Motorola MT917: What the Droid RAZR should have been; will it ever leave China?

Earlier this month we saw leaked images of an as yet to be announced Motorola Android smartphone called the MT917. We called it the “Chinese RAZR” since it looked a lot like the RAZR we saw announced here in America, but it had a custom TD-SCDMA 3G radio that only works in China. Well today Motorola officially announced the MT917, and we’re frankly shocked that it isn’t the model that ended up being sold on Verizon. First key difference between the MT917 and the Droid RAZR, the screen. Whereas the Read more

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China Mobile getting its own version of Motorola RAZR – MT917

Motorola announced both CDMA and GSM-based versions of the RAZR, but apparently that’s not enough. The American handset maker will also have a version of the device for China, marked as MT917. The upcoming phone will rock a TD-SCDMA radio, hinting us it’s heading to China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of number of subscribers. However, the Chinese RAZR will come with slightly changed design, featuring rounded edges. Not sure why that’s the case, though. Aside from the mentioned 3G radio, the rest of MT917′s specs will Read more