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With ongoing delays over the issuing of third generation mobile network licenses, China’s telecoms sector is a hotbed of restructuring rumors and uncertainty. The Market Journal casts an eye over some of the rumors, and rules out two of the three major myths

China Unicom to spread mobile network

December 05,2007

By STAFF EDITOR

Blackberries and Apples coming to China

October 24,2007

By ANDREW SIEGFRIED

After more than three years of courtship, Research in Motion (RIM) has finally announced a deal with China Mobile to sell its popular Blackberry smartphones in China. More than 5.4 million smartphones were sold in China during the first half of 2007; if RIM can grab even a fraction of this market it should provide a big boost to the company's fortunes. ...

China to improve telecom competition: Vice Minister

October 19,2007

By STAFF WRITER

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As one of the two mobile phone operators in China, China Unicom Limited engages in cellular business in 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China. It has a global system for mobile, GSM, communications and CDMA. It is also a provder of international and domestic long-distance calls, data and Internet services, and other related telecommunication value-added businesses. China Unicom has constructed a broadband optical fiber transmission network in the Mainland as a shared platform that supports the operations of cellular business, international and domestic long-distance calls, data and Internet. In the first quarter of 2006, China Unicom had revenues rose 10 percent to 22.9 billion yuan and net income rose 31 percent to 1.39 billion yuan, boosted by higher sales from its GSM business and increased income from the CDMA business. Together with China Mobile, China Unicom is a major competitor for the expected 3G license.

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