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The Chinese government plans to formally issue 4G licenses later this year, with China Mobile already working on its network. According to Premier Li Keqiang, the world’s most populous nation is aiming for annual average growth of 20% in the information consumption industry from 2013 to 2015. As we said, China Mobile is already deploying…
The ZTE U988s has been officially unveiled today, becoming the world’s first Tegra 4 powered smartphone. Unlike its brethren the ZTE Geek, which touts an Intel Atom processor, the ZTE Geek U988s will have a Tegra 4 architecture, with a processor running at 1.8GHz. The ZTE U998s will be available in China on China Mobile…
Looks like China Mobile will be offering an improved version of the Oppo Find 5, one that will sport faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz. In comparison, the existing model — which is now available in Europe and North America — comes with last year’s Snapdragon S4 Pro. Oppo has already started…
China Mobile has deployed a Huawei-made LTE base station atop Mount Everest, which is 5,200 meters above sea level. More than 200 guests were at a ceremony marking the launch of the service, and they [guests] were able to see the demo that included live HD video streaming from a Mount Everest base camp to…
China Mobile is getting ready to trial its 4G service next month in Shanghai. Starting from June 1st, the world’s largest mobile operator will be inviting around 5,000 users to start testing the TD-LTE based service. As part of its preparations, China Mobile has built 1,000 base stations, 700 outdoors and 300 indoors, to cover…
China Mobile has a sweet problem as it ended the year with another $20.8 billion in profits, bringing its total cash pile to impressive $60 billion. The world’s largest mobile operator experienced a rise of 2.7% over the previous year with revenues rising by 6.1%. For the next financial year, China Mobile is expected to…
Looks like Apple is gearing towards signing a deal with China Mobile to bring its iPhone to the world’s biggest mobile operator. According to Patently Apple, China Mobile is about to start testing its TD-LTE network in more than 100 cities across China in an effort to bring 4G mobile Internet to more than half…
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook met with China Mobile’s Chairman Xi Guohua last Thursday to discuss “matters of cooperation,” a China Mobile spokesman said. No further details were given due to a confidentiality agreement signed, and we’ll rather have to wait for another few weeks or months to get something new on this. Apple currently has…
Orange and China Mobile have signed a memorandum of understanding with the goal to accelerate the commercialization of NFC-based services by integrating standardized technical protocols into their respective service offerings. The two companies will work together to ensure the large-scale adoption of SIM-based NFC services and the availability of compatible devices in a open and…
China Mobile will join a number of other carriers to offer its own-branded devices in order to “fill gaps” in the market that the company feels are not served by other handset vendors. During the China Mobile Global Developers Conference 2012 held in Guangzhou, the carrier’s CEO Li Yue said that China Mobile will also…